Installing and sharing an HP Laserjet 1020 on Win7 x64  

After many unsuccessful attempts to get this printer installed and shared with other Vista and/or Windows 7 machines on the network, I finally worked out a procedure that works reliably. Since I couldn’t find this info all in one place anywhere else, I thought I’d share.

• Get rid of old unsuccessful installation attempts to install the drivers: Open Print Managment (type “print managment” in the “search for programs and files” box on the start menu). Right click any instance of HP 1020 drivers and click “Remove Driver Package”. If it says that the printer is in use and can’t be deleted, restart your computer and then try again.
• Download the Vista x64 drivers from: Select software and drivers*
  From the two available choices, use the Print Driver Package, not the Plug and Play Package.
• Make sure the printer is NOT CONNECTED. Run the driver installation program, making note of the folder to which it installs the files (usually “C:\Program Files (x86)\Hewlett-Packard\Laserjet 1020_1022 drivers”)
• Connect the printer. Windows 7 should detect the printer but then claim that it was NOT installed successfully.
• At this point, the HP 1020 should show up as a device in the “Devices and Printers” window. Right click on it, and go to properties.
• On the General tab, click “Make changes” (or whatever the button near the bottom says… I can’t recreate it once the printer is installed properly). This will open up a second “Properties” window where the Drivers tab now has the “Update driver” button active instead of grayed out.
• Click update drivers, then select “Browse my computer…” and navigate to the folder from step 3, then press OK.
• Once this completes, the HP 1020 should be fully functional on your Windows 7 x64 machine.

Now comes the trickier part, getting it to share properly across your network.

• Go to “Devices and Printers”, right click on the HP 1020, and choose “Printer Properties” (not just “Properties”, they’re different). Go to the “Sharing” tab and make sure that “Share this printer” and “Render print jobs on …” are both checked.
• If you are sharing with an x86 Vista or Windows 7 computer, make sure that you’ve installed the x86 drivers by pressing “Additional drivers” from the printer’s “Sharing” tab. Click the x86 check box, then press OK. In the next window, navigate to a folder containing the x86 drivers for the HP 1020 (you should be able to download them from the HP website and unzip/install them to a folder, then choose that folder).
• Here’s the tricky part… I’m not sure why this works, but it does. It seems like the HP Print Monitor disrupts sharing of the printer with other Vista/Win 7 systems on the network and causes them to just hang in the queue. It must be disabled. Here’s how:
• Open the Registry editor (Press start, and type “regedit” into the “Search for programs and files” box).
• Navigate to the following key:
  “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\Monitors” and then delete the "HPLJ1020LM" folder.
• Close the registry editor, and then in Windows explorer, navigate to the folder “C:\windows\system32”. Rename the file “ZLhp1020.dll” to something like “ZLhp1020old.dll”.
• Restart the computer.
• Now you’re ready to install the shared printer from the networked computers. IF YOU’VE ALREADY TRIED TO INSTALL THE DRIVERS ON THE OTHER COMPUTERS, COMPLETELY REMOVE THEM ACCORDING TO THE STEP 1 IN THE PREVIOUS SECTION BEFORE PROCEEDING.
• If you are using “Homegroups”, the networked Win7 computer should recognize the printer and immediately give you the option to install it. If not, or if you are sharing with a Vista computer, use the Network browser to navigate to the shared printer and double-click it. You should get a prompt to install the driver. Click OK or whatever.
• If all is well, you should have a working, shared HP 1020. One thing I noticed, however, is it doesn’t seem like the manual “double sided printing” feature of the HP driver works when the HP Print Monitor has been disabled. Nothing I can do about that… have to wait for HP to release Win7 x64 drivers, I guess.

Whew...Hopefully I got all that right! Good luck.

it works. thanks

It didnt work for me.... when I connected my printer in this step:
[Connect the printer. Windows 7 should detect the printer but then claim that it was NOT installed successfully]
windows didn't detect my printer... i can't print anything

I have tried off and on for a week to get this working... I am thankful, my wife is thankful, I can stop waiting on getting it fixed! :)

I want to thank for the Tip. I have a Laserjet 1018 and had the same Problem. With the Result describe with the Laserjet 1020, it functioned the same for the Laserjet 1018.

Again thank you very much for the Help

Sincereley
Sascha Ablass

scottfreeze, you're the MAN! yes, i used all caps; cause you've earned it. Perfect working instructions (driver installation, network untested here).

I've been stuggling with HP 1020 on a Vista x86 machine for over a year with spotty issues, but this works flawlessly. Thanks man!

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SP

scottfreeze you are the man!

Thank you for your help!

It worked great for me, didn't try to network! Thanks

Thanks so much for the info, You made it sound so easy