HP laserjet 5 driver anyone?

[Cliff789]

HP laserjet 5 ARRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH~!!!

I read this post http://www.sevenforums.com/drivers/137520-hp-laserjet-5n-drivers.html where a member used a driver for a HP LJ2030 PCL5 to get his laserjet 5N going . I have a laserjet 5 and absolutely nothing I've tried will make this work. Has anyone got anything that will make a HP Laser5 run on Win7 64bit???

 

[Cliff789]

Anything? This is a nice workhorse printer and I can't find a driver solution

Win 7 home premium Retail 64bit

 

[onesixski]

looooordy that's a relic man, I remember how cool and fast a laser printer I thought it was back in middleschool when the thing was already like 6 years old lol. But Windows should have drivers for it built-in. What kind of interface is it using to connect to your computer? I can run you through how to manually install a non-USB printer if that's the case.

Here's HP's official driver link just for your info:
HP LaserJet 5/m/n Printer series -  Download drivers and software - HP Business Support Center

 

[Ascendents]

For HP Laserjet 5 with windows 7 64 bit check Windows updates for a Driver

 

[richnrockville]

I read this post http://www.sevenforums.com/drivers/137520-hp-laserjet-5n-drivers.html where a member used a driver for a HP LJ2030 PCL5 to get his laserjet 5N going . I have a laserjet 5 and absolutely nothing I've tried will make this work. Has anyone got anything that will make a HP Laser5 run on Win7 64bit???

As HP doesn't support the older printers, I just install it as a hplj series II

Rich

 

[pbcopter]

Have you tried these?

Microsoft Update Catalog

Also my system (windows 7 x64) shows a driver for that printer in the add printer wizard.
The list was obtained (updated) by selecting Windows update and waiting

 

[Cliff789]

Yah PBCOPTER I have done this pick from the list thing a dozen times. I wait and then it's done and nothing happens
The printer looks like it's set up, but it isn't.
The first time I try to print a document it fails.
Then I use the troubleshoot function. It applies a useless fix (making it the default printer) and still nothing happens when I try to print.

I don't understand why Laser 5 appears in the selection list.


HP is the same as HP always has been: Utterly and completely unresponsive.

I used to use their equipment in the physics lab. They made great quadrupole mass spectrometers, but if you had a problem you were on your own.

I've tried other Laserjet5 configurations from the list. There are several #5[xyz] printers, but none work

I just install it as a hplj series II

Huh? Series II? You mean as in Laserjet II P ?

There are three Laserjet II offerings the IIP; the IIP plus; and the IIP PostScript Cartridge v52.2
Are you saying that you can get a Laserjet 5 to run as a Laserjet IIP ?

I have no offering on the list of printers that says Laserjet series II

I just selected the Laserjet IIP from the drop down list and it won't print the test page.

What do you do to run it as the Series II?

 

[pbcopter]

When you say you wait, how long? It ususally takes upwards of 5 minutes to update the list of printers.

When you say "I wait and then it's done and nothing happens", what do you mean by done?

 

[Cliff789]

When you say you wait, how long?

Till the machine is done doing whatever it is doing.

When you say "I wait and then it's done and nothing happens", what do you mean by done?

The machined finishes with it's unhelpful installation and nothing happens when I go to print.


Here is some thing very odd:

My other printer is an HP 3380 all in one fax scanner printer. It's a POS for home use. Not up to the demands that my regular work requires.

Earlier in this thread I reported the printer's I installed trying to get the Laser 5 to work.
I uninstalled all other printers. the only one online is the 3380 and it's set as default.

The Laser 5 is powered up but there is no other printer than the 3380 in the Devices and Printers dialog window.

But I just sent a print to the 3380 which is also on.
However the Laser 5 printed it. Not the 3380

This is too weird. I wonder what'll happen when I reboot?

Well, I rebooted ( this is an edit) And the LaserJet5 no longer is doing the printing.

I wonder if a generic driver will work.

 

[Cliff789]

No joy on either count guys. HP is no longer supporting them and Win 7 doesn't have a driver on board. Which is bloody weird because in the Printers and Drivers dialog box there is a Laser 5 selection, but it doesn't work and nothing obtains online when it goes searching.

The hell of it is that THis page:
HP LaserJet, Color LaserJet, and LaserJet AiO/MFP Products - Products Not Supported in Windows 7 (32-bit and 64-bit) - c02535920 - HP Business Support Center
Tells me that my printer IS supported.

But I seem unable to get it running.


If it is indeed supported then the drivers should be on my Window's 7 Retail Disk.
Where do I look on the disk for the drivers?

 

[kegobeer]

Do you have Device Installation Settings configured so it will look online for drivers?

 

[Cliff789]

Do you have Device Installation Settings configured so it will look online for drivers?

Yes, I just checked.


It asks to go online Then returns that it can't get there


Mind you I've been trying to get this to work for a while now.

I can select HAVE DISK from the printer driver menu, but I don't know where to send it on the Windows 7 retail Disk.

When I just click NEXT instead of selecting Windows Update it installs the printer.
But when I try to print the test page ( or any page) the triangular error symbol appears next to the printer.
Troublshooting results in only two paths:
1) the troublshooter sets the printer to default ( like that should matter) and
2) then it returns an error that there is a page in queue that hasn't printed and nothing I do will make it print and deleting it from the queue doesn't improve results. I still can't print.

 

[kegobeer]

Which LaserJet 5 do you have? Is it the 5, the 5M, or the 5N? Is this connected via parallel port or USB?

Did you read and follow these instructions?

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?&objectID=c02536257

 

[Cliff789]

Laserjet 5, as I said. There is no letter designation. If there were, I'd have included it.

it's connected the old way Parallel - the way the laserjet 5 was made to connect. It predates USB.

 

[riotkayak284]

How is it connected?

 

[Cliff789]

How is it connected?

What is the "it " to which you refer?

 

[kegobeer]

Follow the instructions in the HP document I linked. If that doesn't work, then I guess you're out of luck and you'll have to either use XP or buy a new printer.

 

[Cliff789]

Yah, that doesn't tell me anything that I haven't already done a dozen times.
It's unfortunate that HP won't publish the driver.

I'm wondering if a repair installation of Win 7 is not the way to go.

 

[riotkayak284]

Does your computer even have a parallel connector? Most nowadays don't.... And in reality and PCL driver should print....

 

[richnrockville]

FWIW: I have also installed other laserjet printers that no drivers are available as a lj 2000 and they worked, especially when connected via the parallel port.

Rich