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HP LaserJet 1020 ($161) and OS X 10.4.2 Tiger - Perfect Together!
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Baninated
Join Date: Nov 2002
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Over the weekend I picked up this nice little HP LaserJet 1020 ($161).
It does NOT mention OSX support but I bought anyway since I could always use it with my WinXP gaming machine (worst case).
I poked around the web and found this:
HP LaserJet 1022 OS X Drivers
I downloaded and installed it. Even though it says 1022, it works fine for the series (1020 included). I printed out a few rather complex Word documents. Each page printed very quickly too. I had seen some folks in other forums complaining that it printed slowly. I did not experience that at all. Mind you that I was not printing out massively complex graphical documents either.
But download that driver, install it, run the Printer Setup Utility. It will see the 1020 on your USB port just fine.
I was printing in less than 2 minutes.
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Join Date: Sep 2001
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HP's hardware, unlike their software, is very, very, very good. HP's laser software has always been better than their inkjet software. It's nice to see that they've finally managed to get USB connect laser software that works properly, the original HP USB drivers weren't too bad in OS X, but the OS 9 version depended on a long-defunct Apple technology which didn't work in Classic. Installing an original 11x0 on a machine which didn't boot OS 9 was quite interesting.
(Some of us must use Classic, given that there are those who send us Word Perfect files, and Word Perfect will _never_ be released for OS X. Nor is Word Perfect the only old application which will never be released for OS X in use around here.)
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2000
Location: Garden of Paradise Motel, Suite 3D
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Originally Posted by ogun
(Some of us must use Classic, given that there are those who send us Word Perfect files, and Word Perfect will _never_ be released for OS X. Nor is Word Perfect the only old application which will never be released for OS X in use around here.)
Amen to that.
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I have a HP LaserJet 1012. I love it.
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Join Date: Jan 2004
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Originally Posted by ogun
Installing an original 11x0 on a machine which didn't boot OS 9 was quite interesting.
Whoa, be careful with those XXs. The Laserjet 1100 is a PARALLEL printer, and the only way we found to make it work was to set it up with a JetDirect print server or attached to a Windows machine with sharing via Samba. And we needed to get the Gimp-print drivers, that didn't come with 10.2 at the time.
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Join Date: Sep 2001
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Originally Posted by tigas
Whoa, be careful with those XXs. The Laserjet 1100 is a PARALLEL printer, and the only way we found to make it work was to set it up with a JetDirect print server or attached to a Windows machine with sharing via Samba. And we needed to get the Gimp-print drivers, that didn't come with 10.2 at the time.
The 1100 is a parallel printer?! Damn. I must be misremembering, I was certain that the machine which gave me that problem was a 1100 or a 1120 or something like that, and it was USB. Gotta go and have an actual look at the printer on Monday or Tuesday.
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