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Printing in Windows 7 on HP1010...my workaround
I have struggled a lot and got really mad at HP for not creating a driver for a really new printer...but I found a workaround that I am willing to use constantly.
This is how I fixed the issue.
I installed VirtualPC under Windows 7. It comes for free with a number of Windows 7 versions. Under Virtual PC XP I installed 3 apps and the HP1010 drivers for XP.
App one Word Viewer (free)
App two Excel Viewer (free) and
App three Adobe PDF Reader (free).
I also loaded pdf995 in Windows 7 which is a free PDF converter.
I put a shortcut for Apps 1 to 3 on my desktop in Windows 7.
So now when I have a word doc ready to print in Windows 7, I use the shortcut to MS Word Viewer and simply load the DOC file and print it.
95% of my files I print are either Word or Excel. Everything else I "print to PDF" in Windows 7 and now use the link on my desktop
to the Adobe Reader under Virtual PC and simply print the PDF file to my HP1010.
I now can print 100% docs in Windows 7 with my HP1010.