Subject: RE: Tech: Printer driver for offline computer?
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 13 Nov 10 - 08:52 PM
The HP drivers site indicates that a Win7 driver is available from Microsoft but is apparently not on the installation disk(s) and must be downloaded from Microsoft via "Windows Update." This (according to HP) requires an internet connection during installation of the printer, and the updater looks for "anything that needs a driver" and downloads it as part of the update.
HP also appears to say that the Win7 driver supports only "basic printing" and that most of the fancy features on the printer won't work with any available driver. There does NOT APPEAR to be a full-function driver for this printer for connection to a Win7 computer.
Option 1, if you can confirm that the driver is a download from Microsoft, would be to go directly to Microsoft rather than to HP. Microsoft is better(?) at providing "service downloads" that...
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