VISTA FIX FOR HP LaserJet 1000 (Simple & Working)
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Friday, December 07, 2007 2:42 PM
Man I tried everything before this to get my HP Laserjet 1000 to work with Vista, but finally there really is a simple way to get this runing.
Method for getting HP Laserjet 1000 to work under VISTA OS
1) Download and extract the latest HP Laserjet 1000 XP drivers (dated 2005)
( automatically extracted to c:lj1000hb )
2) Then go to... Start /Control Panel /printers .... then Add a Printer
3) A new window comes up ...Next select.... Add a local Printer
4) then check "Use an existing port" and on the right there is an option to choose a port.
choose "USB001 (Virtual printer port for USB)"
5) on next window choose HP laserjet 1000 (if in list) or choose disk if not and browse to the files (only browse if the HP lj 1000 is NOT in the list.)
and follow the rest it really works.
any problems email blaquelake@hotmail.com
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Monday, December 10, 2007 8:40 AM
Hey,
Thanks for post!
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Monday, April 14, 2008 11:43 PM
Hi!, I read your message and I'm having the same problem but the printer does never turn the leds on, I presed the small button behind and it works, but when I plug the printer cable stop working. A friend gave it to me, so I do not know if it was ok or not. I have been installed in WIN XP and WIN Vista but the Op. systems never recognize it. It would be damage?, please help me.
Victor -
Thursday, May 22, 2008 12:21 AM
Thank you.
Went to HP website and it says 1000 is not supported. What a batch of impotent people.
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Thursday, May 22, 2008 11:58 AMI tried with another HP 1000 printer and it works, I got a damage printer... thanks anyway...
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Monday, August 25, 2008 5:02 PM
I tried to use HP Laserjet 1000 on my new Vista 64 bit..
I followed your instruction.
Since it did not have hp laser jet 1000 in the list, I browsed and
tried to install the file from the file but it gives me this message.
"The folder your specified doesn't contain a compatible software
driver for your device. If the folder contains a driver, make it is designed to work with
Windows for x64-based system"
PLEASE PLEASE HELP ME!!!
My laptop is
http://www.officedepot.com/catalog/txtSearchDD.do?jopa= null&norefinement=true& searchTxt=111330
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Monday, September 08, 2008 10:34 PM
This worked for me. Thanks.
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Friday, November 14, 2008 1:22 PMThis does not work for 64-bit versions of Vista.
Thank you, HP.
blaquelake wrote: Man I tried everything before this to get my HP Laserjet 1000 to work with Vista, but finally there really is a simple way to get this runing.
Method for getting HP Laserjet 1000 to work under VISTA OS
1) Download and extract the latest HP Laserjet 1000 XP drivers (dated 2005)
( automatically extracted to c:lj1000hb )
2) Then go to... Start /Control Panel /printers .... then Add a Printer
3) A new window comes up ...Next select.... Add a local Printer
4) then check "Use an existing port" and on the right there is an option to choose a port.
choose "USB001 (Virtual printer port for USB)"
5) on next window choose HP laserjet 1000 (if in list) or choose disk if not and browse to the files (only browse if the HP lj 1000 is NOT in the list.)
and follow the rest it really works.
any problems email blaquelake@hotmail.com
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Monday, November 24, 2008 7:51 AM
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Wednesday, December 03, 2008 12:31 AMbut you can't customize your paper size, like 330 mm x 215,6 mm, isn't it??
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Tuesday, February 10, 2009 10:49 AM
Sorry everyone I've been very busy lately, I'll have some time around from the 22nd - 24th Jan 2009. So hopefull I'll figure out a fix by 1st March 2009, for the vista x64 by then, so cross your fingers. Ciao!
blaquelake@hotmail.com
Graphic Artist the Caribbean -
Monday, July 13, 2009 4:52 AMThanks a lot! I inherited an old HP 1000---would be great to use it, becuase it's a laser and lasts forever, didn't think I could get it to work with Vista, but will give it a try tomorrow. I really appreciate the help.
Regards,
Rob Van Noord -
Tuesday, September 08, 2009 5:57 PMOkay, so I found a work-around to this problem. The bad part is you need a computer that's able to print to the laserjet on your network, but it works!
Here're the basic steps:
- Install pdfCreator from http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/ on your Windows 7 machine. This is a 'virtual printer' that turns anything you send to it into a PDF file. It appears as a regular printer in windows.
- Create a shared folder on the computer with the printer attached. I called mine 'Spool' and put it in my root directory.
- Open up PDFCreator and go to Printer --> Options --> Auto Save.
- Check the 'Use Auto-save' box. Select pdf as the format to use.
- Check the 'Use this directory for auto-save' box. Enter the shared folder on the other computer that you created in step 2.
- Close the pdfcreator properties window.
- Install Batch Doc Print from http://www.awises.com/download.html on the machine with the Laserjet 1000 attached.
- Open Batch Doc Print. Go to Tasks --> Watch Folder.
- Click 'Browse' and select the shared folder you created in step 2.
- Check the 'Monitor the folder when windows start up box.'
- Click 'Add' and then OK.
Now all you have to do is set PDFCreator to be your default printer on your Windows 7 machine and make sure your printer computer is turned on when you want to print! The only downside to this is that Batch Doc Print isn't free, so you have to click 'Try' every time your computer starts up. This doesn't limit it's functionality, so for me it's not a big deal. -
Thursday, September 10, 2009 11:05 PMJust did this on Windows 7 RC build 7100 worked flawlessly
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Monday, September 21, 2009 4:06 AMThis is not an acceptable solution. Why not just PDF a document and upload it to Google Docs and print from the computer that works? Because it's a pain in the butt.... We want a driver for 64-bit Vista so we don't have to run around to different computers hitting print all the time, or making sure that one computer is on. And just in case anyone else tries it: I bought a Silex Wireless 1000g Print Server thinking I could trick Vista 64 into just printing to the device, but no such luck. It's just a pass-through server so you need the drivers to use the device. I'm sure someone could write or update the driver for this. Why doesn't HP release the driver source code? Or why doesn't Windows support something like device driver emulators? It cannot be that hard to make this device work. I really hate HP for this and I'll never buy an HP printer again. I bought it in 2000 and it still works great. Why should I buy a new one? Stupid.
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Thursday, October 01, 2009 10:16 PMthis fix should work for the 32 bit vista, dunno yet going to try tomorrow, but windows vista 64 is like a red headed step child with a lot of items. Try connecting a palm to that computer; I'll tell you now it's a pain if your laptop isn't equipped with bluetooth you might as well plan on purchasing one, and there's only a few bluetooth adapters that will work with vista 64.
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Thursday, October 08, 2009 9:15 PMAWESOME you are a life saver - this works beautifully
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Thursday, October 15, 2009 9:23 PMThe pdfcreator/batch print solution worked perfectly!
Setup was kludgy, but it works seamlessly.
Obviously a print driver would be better, but since I'm not volunteering to write one this is an excellent work-around, especially for the short-term (which is all I need.)
(My 'problem child' is Vista Home 64b and the host computer is XP pro.) -
Wednesday, December 23, 2009 9:34 AMIt's truly a shame Vista 64 cannot get a working driver directly from HP, so much for a customer support from their side. However, another and even nicer option for batch-printing on another computer, is installing free Sun Virtualbox on your computer. It takes few hours to tinker with the installation and setup, but in virtualbox you can install a full-fledged winXP with USB-support (unlike the microsoft Virtual PC which does not support USB at all, what a bummer) allowing you to install printer drivers to emulated OS and use HP LJ 1000 directly from within Virtualbox. Works like a treat, and if you like, you can set up similar batch-printing procedure as described above and print to a folder shared with host and virtual OS and have the virtual OS to print automatically once you save a file to shared folder. Nice, easy and clean. Take that HP! ;)
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Monday, February 01, 2010 3:22 AMThx a lot Budddy!!!! Worked like a charm on Windows 7 32Bit!!!!
I was thinking on buying a new laser printer... i guess thats why HP is not releasing the driver... bastards.....
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Friday, March 26, 2010 8:54 PM
I was inspired by the Sun Virtualbox approach suggested by Archawk's Dec 23/09 post. And I was able to get my HP LaserJet 1000 printer printing using this method too!
I tried to get the printing working by creating a VirtualBox guest service using NAT port forwarding so that my Windows 7 64-bit host PC could print through the Windows XP guest virtual system.
I gave up on this approach though because I couldn't figure out what TCP port to specify for the host and for the guest. Perhaps someone else will have better luck creating the VirtualBox guest service... Specifically, I could not figure out the <GuestPortNumber> and <HostPortNumber> parameters I should use from the VBoxManage commands below:
i.e.
Using the VBoxManage command-line tool:
VBoxManage setextradata "VM Guest Name"
"VBoxInternal/Devices/pcnet/0/LUN#0/Config/guestssh/Protocol" TCP
VBoxManage setextradata "VM Guest Name"
"VBoxInternal/Devices/pcnet/0/LUN#0/Config/guestssh/GuestPort" <GuestPortNumber>
VBoxManage setextradata "VM Guest Name"
"VBoxInternal/Devices/pcnet/0/LUN#0/Config/guestssh/HostPort" <HostPortNumber>
My best guess for the GuestPortNumber is 9100 and any port not blocked by the firewall for the HostPortNumber, I'm tried 910.
So for the solution that worked for me, I ended up creating a shared folder like Archawk is using:
i.e.
VBoxManage sharedfolder add "VM name" --name "sharename" --hostpath "C:\test"I totally recommend this Sun VirtualBox solution for people that are a little more techno-savy - it will remove the need to have another computer on your network running a version of Windows that will allow you to print with the HP LaserJet 1000.
Here is where you can download the VBox software: http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
It was pretty straight forward to install. Although, when I installed Windows XP the auto-activation did not work and I had to call in for the phone activation with the Microsoft automated voice system. The only real issue I ran into that caused a bit of confusion was trying to find the VBox Shared Folder on the Windows XP guest system after I created the shared folder on the virtual machine. To get around this issue I had to install the VBox guest additions (described in the VBox User manual), disable the Windows XP firewall and navigate up from the Entire Network area to find shared folder. Once I found the shared folder, I was able to map it to a network drive easily.
I also used the PDF creator/writer (e.g. CutePDFWriter or Abobe PDF Writer) approach from Windows 7 to print a PDF to the shared folder mentioned above. The awises batch doc print solution ltig99 posted on Sept 8/09 did not work for me - I kept getting an error when I tried to get the application to monitor my shared folder; probably because it was trying to monitor a mapped network drive perhaps...
I ended up writing a simple program by taking some code snipettes from other forums to monitor the shared folder on the guest system for new files and then print them. I suppose I could have downloaded one of many free shareware type applications out there to do the same job, but if you know how to code then this one should be fairly simple for you.
Also, the auto-printing is pretty nice-to-have, but you could get by with just sharing files and printing them on the guest system.
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Tuesday, August 03, 2010 9:35 PMI think you mean incompetent ?
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Wednesday, August 04, 2010 3:57 PM
hi, connection and tries to install the drivers you my friend?
Hp Laserjet 1000 Vista Drivers
Good Luck
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Wednesday, July 06, 2011 1:25 AMStill working after all these years..... 2011 and it works just like advertised. Just saved me an $80 toner that was going to go to waste due to obsolete drivers. What a great fix.
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Wednesday, July 06, 2011 5:42 PMhi, I use hp laserjet 1000 driver for Win 7 Vista and Win Xp
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Tuesday, November 08, 2011 3:47 AM
THERE IS AN INTERESTING, AND QUITE POSSIBLY SIMPLER, SOLUTION IN THE POST BY "Los 15", IN:
http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Printer-All-in-One-Software-and/Windows-7-and-HP-Laserjet-1000/td-p/129513/page/4
IF YOU ALREADY HAVE THE LASERJET 1000 INSTALLED IN AN XP SYSTEM, SEE POST BY erpp, IN:
http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Printer-All-in-One-Software-and/Windows-7-and-HP-Laserjet-1000/td-p/129513/page/5
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