HP Photosmart P1000 driver  

sorry thats all i can remember its a while since i did this i will try to remember i will keep you posted

Uninstall the printer completely. Then connect it via USB, and wait for Windows Update to install the printer driver. No further action should be needed.
I installed an old HP 1220c this way.

Hi KRS 7272
Click on your hp printer you have a box appear click on hardware tab click properties click on change settings (note if you click driver on the previous box you will not get the option to update driver) click driver tab click update driver click browse my computer for driver click on let me pick from a list you should now know the rest good luck
Tony

Ok, got it to work. thanks everybody! sillyman, your comment on uninstalling the printer was the key. It didn't click that the "unknown device" in my device manager was my printer till you mentioned that. From there I was able to install the workout driver as described.

Hello i still have a problem with installing the driver for photosmart p1000.
I fallowed as instructed. control panel ->device and printers->(righclick)add printer->windows update-..... still cant find driver photosmart p1000.

i also completely uninstalled the printer to do the steps, and is still not working please help.

PLease help asap.

I also have a Photosmart P1000. Having read through the threads, I have successfully installed the HP DeskJet 930C/932C/935C driver from Windows downloads to run the P1000. All seems to work fine. BUT - on printing text, the writing is "shadowed". (The shadow seems to shift phase, with the text sometimes coming into focus). Although I don't know if it's the printer or the driver, the printer worked fine previously with XP.
It seems the shadow appears on different colours, depending on the print quality as follows:
NORMAL: Black - marked shadow; Green - slight shadow; Red and blue - seem OK.
DRAFT: Black - OK; Green and blue - marked shadow; Red - slight shadow.
BEST: Black - slight shadow; Green, red and blue - seem OK

Does anyone recognise this as a printer, or a driver issue? If driver, is there a better one available for HP P1000?

Thanks for the help guys! I also thought I would have to scrap a very dependable printer. Much <3

Great stuff. Thanks for the tip of Windows update it worked a trat. Now I can get printing on my HP which my son can still get free? cartridges for... save my Canon Pixma Pro for the proper photos, ink too expensive.

Ok, so i learned that the driver for the deskjet 940c also worked as a dependable driver for the p1000. It works great....until i reboot my laptop. So here's my situation. I have a desktop running XP and a laptop running 7. they are both networked together and so i have my printer via network, via desktop. i.e. the desktop has to be on in order for my printer to work. For some reason, after i shut down my laptop i cannot restart it up again, except for safe mode. the problem is that the printer spooling is running and preventing my laptop from booting up. I got the driver from the desktop Windows Update because that's the one that is wired to the printer. I tried to download just the driver for windows 7 but it is included in the Windows Update for the laptop, and therefore is not available for download. I think i have to have that driver installed into my desktop in order to get everything to function properly. Any suggestions, comments will be greatly appreciated. I really hate to junk such a great printer out.