Turn a parallel port printer into a wireless printer?

john.o1

Just plug in the printer to the laptop and share the printer on the network.

Does not work like that, there must be 64 bit drivers on the 64 bit Windows computer of which there are none.

No 64 bit drivers available for the printer, printer does not print regardless of connecting by USB or parallel port

And yes, coincidently, my printer is also a hp laserjet 1005 as well.

gjchester

spud17 wrote: »

What are these old printers that do not work with 64 bit Windows?

HP can be painful if you cannot use a generic driver, My Laserjet 1200 (form about the year 2000) does not have any drivers, and its networked via a Windows Home Server, I had to set up a custom port on the PC and map through, not hideously complex but not something most people would want to do.

HP's own "universal printer driver" would not see it on the queue as there are no HP written 64bit drivers for the printer.

Anything that talks back in terms of consumable use, or a MFD can be problematical, and there are a sub class of printers (GDI printer or WinPrinters) which like the soft modems of old do all the heavy processing in Windows and then render the image out to the printer, (read the cheap printers that don't support at the very least PCL or Postscript) if the vendor has not provided an upgraded driver then they will not work.

spud17

r2015 wrote: »

hp laserjet 1005 series for one.

I don't know what you have tried.

In my case each time, Win 764 bit and 8.1 64-bit, I have chosen the option to let Windows Update locate the drivers.

Looking at the various printer driver available in the Devices and Printers list, via Control Panel, I can see HP Laserjet M1005 Class Driver.
Presumably this is the one that you have tried, but doesn't work?

spud17

gjchester wrote: »

HP can be painful if you cannot use a generic driver, My Laserjet 1200 (form about the year 2000) does not have any drivers, and its networked via a Windows Home Server, I had to set up a custom port on the PC and map through, not hideously complex but not something most people would want to do.

HP's own "universal printer driver" would not see it on the queue as there are no HP written 64bit drivers for the printer.

Anything that talks back in terms of consumable use, or a MFD can be problematical, and there are a sub class of printers (GDI printer or WinPrinters) which like the soft modems of old do all the heavy processing in Windows and then render the image out to the printer, (read the cheap printers that don't support at the very least PCL or Postscript) if the vendor has not provided an upgraded driver then they will not work.

Strange then that on my Win 8.1 Pro 64-bit, in Add Printer, it lists HP Laserjet 1200 Series PCL5 and 1200 Series PS. Or I have got the wrong printer?

r2015

This should make things clearer


http://h20565.www2.hp.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?sp4ts.oid=240170&ac.admitted=1406218104676.876444892.492883150&docId=emr_na-c02535920-19&docLocale=en_US

esuhl

john.o1 wrote: »

Does not work like that, there must be 64 bit drivers on the 64 bit Windows computer of which there are none.

Ahh, that's right -- it's all coming back to me now!

I *think* I managed to get round that problem somehow by sending a Postscript image from the client PCs to the print server, and then getting the print server to print the Postscript file locally. That way, only the print server requires a printer driver.

I got rid of the printer/server quite a while back, (and I set it up years before that) so I can't quite remember what I did.

If you install GNU/Linux and CUPS on the server, do you still need local drivers...?

gjchester

spud17 wrote: »

Strange then that on my Win 8.1 Pro 64-bit, in Add Printer, it lists HP Laserjet 1200 Series PCL5 and 1200 Series PS. Or I have got the wrong printer?

Probably the same as me, Does not change the fact the HP universal App would not see the queue, its supposed to but does not and HP will no longer provide any support other than the software.


It can print if connected by USB or parallel if you have the port, but not networked without some extra work. Could be my setup, but while it worked it was not simple.

almillar

there must be 64 bit drivers on the 64 bit Windows computer of which there are none

Eh? I'm pretty sure I've used 32 bit drivers in 64 bit versions of Windows before. Not necessarily for printers, but I'm sure it works. Worth a try even if Windows squeals about it a bit! Theoretically some XP drivers (or even Win2000?) should work unless something specific breaks.

r2015

Eh? I'm pretty sure I've used 32 bit drivers in 64 bit versions of Windows before. Not necessarily for printers,

Exactly.

I got a Netgear PS110 printserver from ebay for 50p plus postage.


Completely unsuitable, I could not get the software to install in Windows 10 nor Windows 8.1.

The software installed in Windows 7 but did nothing.

It installed in Windows XP but did not work properly, told it to print, it said it had printed but nothing printed and there was no print job left in the print queue.

Also you still need to install the printer drivers for the printer you have, so no use when there are no drivers for your printer such as 64 bit drivers.

I have finally decided to bite the bullet and admit defeat that my old faithful hp laserjet 1005 is incompatible with 64 bit Windows.

Anyone want a hardly used Netgear PS110 printserver, free plus free packaging, just pay postage, probably £4.

tronator

r2015 wrote: »

Exactly.

I got a Netgear PS110 printserver from ebay for 50p plus postage.


Completely unsuitable, I could not get the software to install in Windows 10 nor Windows 8.1.

The software installed in Windows 7 but did nothing.

It installed in Windows XP but did not work properly, told it to print, it said it had printed but nothing printed and there was no print job left in the print queue.

Also you still need to install the printer drivers for the printer you have, so no use when there are no drivers for your printer such as 64 bit drivers.

I have finally decided to bite the bullet and admit defeat that my old faithful hp laserjet 1005 is incompatible with 64 bit Windows.

Anyone want a hardly used Netgear PS110 printserver, free plus free packaging, just pay postage, probably £4.

Do you mean the software for the printserver? There shouldn't be any software required to use a print server. It gets an IP from the DHCP server (or set up a static one) and that IP you use when you set up your printer as network printer.

Most printer "drivers" are a lot of bloatware these days. Most the time it is enough to install the real driver manually. Most the times the generic PCL or Postscript driver from the series will work.

Edit: OMG, I just looked at Netgear's support pages and they're talking about Windows 98 in the manual. That's a blast from the past