Hello everybody in this world,
I'd really like my very old HP Deskjet 520 printer to run under win7 64-bit
The printerdriver is not anymore supplied in the driver-database that comes with the OS.
HP customers-service says: not possible (driver update stopped with XP)
They got several so called Universal Print Drivers, I installed them one by one, but they make the printer just come to life, printing some rubbish on the first line and then loading the next sheet and printing some rubbish on first line then loading the next .....
Tried ad random to install some other HP printers (drivers), same results.
The original connection with the XP machine is an parrallel printer cable to LPT 1, the connection to the new Win 7 machine is an USB to parrallel cable.
Unfortunately I lost the original setup files, till now the printer ran smoothly on my XP- 32bit machine, I can see a fistfull of files in the printer server > properties , things like "unidrv.dll"
Would it be possible to transfer these files manually to the right places on the Win 7 machine ?
Thanks in advance for evry help or hint or workaround
Poetman
PS if you wonder why I want to combine a state of the art Win 7 (I7 processor, 16 Gb ram etc) with an antique black & white printer: I'm a musician, the computer will become my DAW, but evryday I need to print some pages sheetmusic for my students.
I'd really like my very old HP Deskjet 520 printer to run under win7 64-bit
The printerdriver is not anymore supplied in the driver-database that comes with the OS.
HP customers-service says: not possible (driver update stopped with XP)
They got several so called Universal Print Drivers, I installed them one by one, but they make the printer just come to life, printing some rubbish on the first line and then loading the next sheet and printing some rubbish on first line then loading the next .....
Tried ad random to install some other HP printers (drivers), same results.
The original connection with the XP machine is an parrallel printer cable to LPT 1, the connection to the new Win 7 machine is an USB to parrallel cable.
Unfortunately I lost the original setup files, till now the printer ran smoothly on my XP- 32bit machine, I can see a fistfull of files in the printer server > properties , things like "unidrv.dll"
Would it be possible to transfer these files manually to the right places on the Win 7 machine ?
Thanks in advance for evry help or hint or workaround
Poetman
PS if you wonder why I want to combine a state of the art Win 7 (I7 processor, 16 Gb ram etc) with an antique black & white printer: I'm a musician, the computer will become my DAW, but evryday I need to print some pages sheetmusic for my students.
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