

This is very time consuming, and it should be a seamless process for people upgrading to Windows 7. But the PCL 5 and PCL 6 don't work for the laserjet 1300. I don't doubt that some respondents have gotten it to work - somehow, and the details are often left out. I have a HP Laserjet 1300 and the driversprovided do not work for it. I don't know if the driver that was automatically found is the same as the generic driver you're using, but it does not seem to be the "Universal Print Driver." The one I have seems to be hpLaserJet 1300 PCL 5 (61.53.25.9) based on the "About" tab of Printer Properties. I then re-connected the LJ 1300 to my XP computer and changed the port on the Win 7 computer to point to the XP share. It downloaded and installed whatever it found and finally the LJ1300 was installed.


First it found the USB_DOT4 driver, then a PRN_DOT4 Driver, and finally - after several minutes - found a printer driver that it liked. Sure enough, Windows recognized the device and then started looking for drivers. Which driver did you install? When I went through the normal process of looking for a driver for my LJ1300, I got to a page that said that HP didn't have a Win 7 圆4 driver (and there was no indication that any was coming), and offered instead the "universal print driver." I had tried that on Vista 圆4 and found the install very confusing, so I wanted to avoid it if possible.īased on another thread here, I connected my LJ1300 to my Win 7 圆4 computer with its USB cable with the Win 7 computer connected to the Internet.

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