"David A. Lessnau" <DavidALessnau@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:9F2AF96A-5C14-4097-A98B-6B8D8DC73E2D@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
>I just wanted to let people know that, at least on my system, the hp
>LaserJet 1012 (1010 series) does work (at least basically) under Vista
>Ultimate RTM. I couldn't run the actual HP driver software since it
>faults almost immediately under Vista. Instead, I just turned on the
>printer and Vista looked for the drivers. It couldn't find any on its
>own, so I pointed it to HP's install CD. Vista then went through the
>motions of trying to get things installed, but failed at some point (I
>think it was due to the spooler). I then went into Device Manager,
>opened the "IEEE 1284.4 compatible printer" structure and right-clicked
>on the identically named device underneath. I told it to Update the
>Driver Software and it did the rest on its own. The printer works fine
>(I haven't done anything esoteric with it, though).[/color]

HP Laserjet 1000 does work, too. But in my case installation was
somewhat tricky - one must install old drivers (in my case 5.51.0926 for
Windows 2000), in W2k compatibility mode, and from built-in
Administrator account. The printer work fine, even the DOS emulation
driver was installed and correctly transfer print jobs from LPT to USB.
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Michal Kawecki [MS-MVP]
Warsaw, PL