HP Laserjet 1020 driver for OSX - Page 5

Frankie_hk · 06-10-2006, 02:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fpc


	wow its working, good call DeltaMac. I havent tried the HP CD, but after all this I wouldnt give them another dime. Heres a recap for everyone to Install HP LaserJet 1020 on Mac OSX. 1) Download; http://www.narc.ca/1601-LJ_1022_Series_OSX.dmg (Old version) 2) If you have anything for the HP 1020 in "/Library/Reciepts" delete it. 3) Delete anything for the HP 1020 in Printer in "Printer Setup Utility" 4) Add new printer in "Printer Setup Utility", select HP LaserJet 1020, driver should come up, click ADD Then you should be able to print.. glad we finally got around this one.. and one big FU to HP.

I follow the steps but still it doesn't work at first. I read some other forums and my conclusion is hp laserjet driver may crash with hp inkjet all-in-one drivers. Therefore I remove all my hp inkjet/ deskjet printers I installed previously and follow the install guide of 1020 again and it works!

Thanks!

joeycrack · 06-11-2006, 03:06 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fpc


	wow its working, good call DeltaMac. I havent tried the HP CD, but after all this I wouldnt give them another dime. Heres a recap for everyone to Install HP LaserJet 1020 on Mac OSX. 1) Download; http://www.narc.ca/1601-LJ_1022_Series_OSX.dmg (Old version) 2) If you have anything for the HP 1020 in "/Library/Reciepts" delete it. 3) Delete anything for the HP 1020 in Printer in "Printer Setup Utility" 4) Add new printer in "Printer Setup Utility", select HP LaserJet 1020, driver should come up, click ADD Then you should be able to print.. glad we finally got around this one.. and one big FU to HP.

I have tried this several times. Can you be more specific with what deletions you performed? I just cannot get ot to work. Thanks for the help.

jasonacooper · 06-12-2006, 08:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by joeycrack


	I have tried this several times. Can you be more specific with what deletions you performed? I just cannot get ot to work. Thanks for the help.

First, let me start by thanking fpc; the steps you posted worked like a charm. This is my first HP printer; after this little experience, I will be less willing to consider their products in the future.

joeycrack: Begin by removing the folder named "1020Series" (or something similar) from /Library/Printers/hp/laserjet . You shouldn't have to touch ~/Library. Next, remove the package receipt in /Library/Receipts and remove the printer from the Printer List window in the Printer Setup Utility. After all of this is done, install the package that fpc linked to, and you should be able to print successfully. I hope this helps you.

pgapro112 · 06-18-2006, 07:37 PM

I've tried following the instructions given many times but I still don't see the model number in the printer setup. I'm erasing what I'm supposed to, then installing the driver but when I go to the printer setup it fails to show the 1020. Any clue what I'm doing wrong?

parlae · 06-22-2006, 06:23 PM

i dont know folks but my hp 1020 is working with older and newer drider but in any case without two-sided printing option.Does it work with anyone's hp?
And do you know where is it that i'm going wrong?
By and thanks

JWS33 · 06-23-2006, 10:03 PM

Hi,
I am also struggling with the HP1020 due to some bad info from a sales person. I have followed the instructions as listed on the website and get the driver to appear when I add the printer but it give me the following error. "An error occured while trying to add the selected printer. client-error-request-value-too-long." I have no idea what that means but I have tried numerous different ways of installing the printer software and always get this message. The printer was working before using the 1022 software and driver but now no go. Any ideas?

zlivo · 06-24-2006, 07:56 PM

I've bought the LaserJet 1020 after reading this forum thread, hoping it'll have worked with the Mac Os even if it wasn't declared to.

Since the fact that this printer is very similar to the 1022 model (which is Mac compatible), I thought HP did a "marketing operation" forcing the Mac users to spend more than Pc users to get an entry level laser printer. That is not quite true.
I sent two emails to HP Italy (that's where I'm from): one to pre-sales customer care, the other (after the printer worked perfectly with my iMac and the 1022 driver) to post-sales customer care. Both emails asked if I could ever use the 1020 with Mac Os through the 1022 driver.

Pre-sales answered:"We confirm the impossibilty to use the 1020 printer with the Mac Os platform. Moreover, we advice against using a driver with a printer it wasn't mean for." So I assumed they were trying to cheat me, paying more for quite the same thing: we all know how business works, sometimes...
And then the post-sales sentence:"Officially the 1020 printer is not Mac Os compatible. The printer communication protocol, called host-based, doesn't guarantee the perfect behaviour in every application on this platform even if installation was successfull (in fact 1022 has a language called HP PCL 5). Regarding hardware damages to the printer coming from using a printer with a driver that wasn't mean for, we have no reports of any peripheral damaged if installed in a system formerly not compatible. By the way, the 1020 is mechanically very similar to the 1022 printer, which is Mac compatible." In few words, the differences between these two models lay not only in printer speed or the tray capacity, but even in the way the communicate with the computer. This fact brings to the conclusion that if the 1020 works with the 1022 driver is by accident (or something similar). Anyway, mine works!

So, once in a liftime, thumbs up for honesty. To tell the truth, HP tols us it wasn't build for Mac...

filosnet · 06-26-2006, 08:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pgapro112


	I've tried following the instructions given many times but I still don't see the model number in the printer setup. I'm erasing what I'm supposed to, then installing the driver but when I go to the printer setup it fails to show the 1020. Any clue what I'm doing wrong?

I have the same problem. I followed all the instructions I found in this thread, but it is still impossible for me to show the correct driver name in the drivers' dropdown list.
Any idea ?

06-29-2006, 07:57 AM

Got one of these here in Australia from Officeworks. Connected the printer, popped in the CD, installed the software that showed up on the CD, added a new printer (it detected the printer, and automatically selected the newly installed driver).

Couldn't have been easier.

wknelsen · 06-30-2006, 01:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by filosnet


	I have the same problem. I followed all the instructions I found in this thread, but it is still impossible for me to show the correct driver name in the drivers' dropdown list. Any idea ?

I had that same problem, so I deleted the hp1020 files in Library/Receipts as well as reset the printer setup utility, then I installed the driver, reset my machine. The first thing I did when I started up my machine again was set up the printer and it found the driver right away.

Thanks fpc and DeltaMac for all your help, this works great!

lilhab · 06-30-2006, 01:27 AM

Hi everyone,
I just bought an HP laserjet 1020 thinking it would work with my powerbook bc I read this forum beforehand...however, it's not the case at all. I tried the old driver version and the installer tells me there is nothing to install. I rtied the new version and it didnt find it in the list of drivers. I tried removing and reinstalling...I tried resetting....I dont know waht to do. I really thought it would work.

Can somebody please send me the old driver version bc that seems to be the one that works, right? does it matter what folder these drivers are in? I tried to do all of the possible tricks everyone has posted but ntohing has worked...any help would be appreciated!

email me: ishde@hotmail.com

nbholtz · 07-06-2006, 01:37 PM

I have been trying to figure this out for the last couple of days. The old drivers worked, but the new drivers from the hp site (1022) did not register at all. The key was the older drivers for me. Thanks. You saved me a ton of stress.

Nicholas

TheMane · 07-15-2006, 08:07 PM

So after seeing the trouble people were having here, and after my own mistakes and errors in trying to do so, I thought I should post my little (huge) guide here about networking from an OSX machine to a WinXP machine connected to the LaserJet 1020:

---

1: Ensure that the WinXP machine has the printer sharing turned on for the 1020, a shared name that is no longer than 8 characters (for simplicity), as well as permissions to print for the account through which you wish to access the printer. (the permissions will generally default to letting any account print after enabling sharing so that last part shouldn't be an issue)

2: Download the Zenographics MAC Monochrome Driver onto your mac from: http://oem.zeno.com/public/SDK/4_Mac...er/Default.htm (it's the second link on that page).

3: Mount the Zenographics .dmg and install the driver

4: Open the "Printer Setup Utility"

5: Click "Add"

6: While holding the "alt" key, click "More Printers..."

7: From the first dropdown, select "advanced".

8: For "Device", select Windows Printer via SAMBA

9: Pick a colorful name for your printer and place it in "Device Name"

10: For "Device URI" use the format: smb://username

assword@WORKGROUP/XP_MACHINE_NAME/SHARED_PRINTER_NAME

11: For "Printer Model", select "ESP" and then select the "Zenographics SDK Mono CUPS v1.1" printer.

12: Select "ADD"

13: Your printer should work!

Elaborations for tricky steps:
1: You should know how to do this, but if not: right click on the 1020 printer in the "Printers" control panel and select "Sharing and Security". Check "Enable sharing for this device". Exhaustive information on how to share a printer is readily available online, so I'm not going to go into that any further.

10: This format screws people up sometimes. If you have the guest account enabled on the XP host machine, you may not need the username

assword section, but just for completeness, you would use "smb://guest@WORKGROUP..." I hate the guest account and leave it disabled, so I set up a special account for printing on the XP machine called "PrintAccount" with a password "LetsPrint". The XP machine is on the workgroup "WORKGROUP", the XP machine is named "XPBOX", and the 1020 is shared as "1020SHARED". My string looks like this: smb://PrintAccount:LetsPrint@WORKGROUP/XPBOX/1020SHARED".

11: If you don't see the ESP group or the CUPS printer afte installing the Zenographics driver, try rebooting. If that doesn't work, reinstall the driver.

13: If your printer doesn't work, look at the error you get back in the print queue. Something like NT_ACCESS_DENIED means the XP machine rejected your request for access. This is either because you didn't enable printer sharing on the XP machine, your printer sharing permissions on the XP machine are wrong, or you put in the wrong username/password combination in the URI string. NT_ACCOUNT_NOTEXIST or something means the account does not exist that you are trying to use in the URI.

----

Phew, ok. I hope that helps. The 1020 is a great little printer (and often very cheap after markdowns). It's definitely nice to have networked.

-TheMane

kennon · 07-20-2006, 05:39 AM

I bought a Laserjet 1020 yesterday here in Germany, and since I assumed the CD wouldn't have mac drivers I followed the advice from this thread and downloading the 1022 drivers, tried them, nothing worked, then I tried the older version that some people used, still didn't work.

Then I just put in the cd that came with it, which had mac drivers on it, and they work perfectly.

Maybe HP has fixed the problem already?

freakboy · 07-28-2006, 12:24 AM

just in case anyone else is having trouble getting this to work, the keys for me were to delete the directories as others have said and then i had to quit and restart the printer utility. i guess it rescans for new drivers when you quit.

its really annoying that HP doesn't have a mac driver for this printer.

H. Kujari · 07-30-2006, 04:19 AM

I made same mistake as, apparently, many others. I bought hp LaserJet 1020 in a hurry, and thereafter found problems with Mac and the printer. Has anyone succeeded in printing with the following combination of hard-/sofware: MacBook Pro, OS X 10.4.7 and hp LaserJet 1020.

— I have tried driver(s) for 1022 model but nothing happens: printing begins (on the screen and job has been performed [but only virtually]).

What should be done? The printer description for 1022 does not appear in the list of printers recognized but the printer itself states its identity in Printer Setup Utility.

H. Kujari · 07-31-2006, 01:51 AM

[QUOTE=shamu1315]Thanks for the heads up on the 1020 "series" driver over in the 1022 page. Worked great, and seems to have no problems at all.

Have you Intel-based Mac and 10.4.7? Have any experience with hp 1020 printer in that environment? (I hope someone has - good or bad to know if it is worth trying and re-trying.)

brasskitten · 08-03-2006, 07:50 PM

Hello there, oh helpful of helpful people!

I just wanted to say thanks for your helpful posts and links about getting the HP laserjet 1020 to work on my iBook.

It all started today when I wanted to print out a PDF of a journal article. My deskjet had run out of ink (once again) and I said.. today will be the day I buy a laskerjet printer.

So I looked here and there for a good deal on a great little printer and finally settled on the HP LJ 1020. Brought it home without realizing that perhaps HP didn't care much for OS X. When I noticed that the CD was only for Windows, my heart sank. Many hours later I finally got to print off that PDF, but I would have returned the printer if it weren't for your detailed descriptions and links to the pre-1020 drivers.

You know.. I still may return it. I don't feel especially like giving HP any of my money.

BK.

Aggy_Head · 08-10-2006, 01:49 AM

I would just like to say that the above-stated solution, installing the old 1022 drivers, works on an Macbook (Intel machine). The OS is version 10.4.6.

Now I just have to back up this driver everywhere I can think of.
Thanks to everyone on this thread. I think I would have returned this printer if it wasn't for the help on this thread.

MMB · 08-11-2006, 02:55 AM

I am running OS X.3.9. After several desperate attempts, I managed to get this to work. I had to move up the contents of the 1020series folder, though. The next step is to find a way to get this to connect with my wireless network so I can use my powerbook.

Quote:

Originally Posted by devnullian


	I installed the 1022 driver, rebooted multiple times, and I couldn't get the 1020 or 1022 to show up in the list in the Printer Setup Utility. To solve this, I moved everything from /Library/Printers/hp/laserjet/1020Series/ up to /Library/Printers/hp/laserjet/ Then I went back to the Printer Setup Utility and OSX found it right away. I also reset printing in the Printer Setup Utility menu a few times, don't know if this was necessary or not. Hope this helps you, Apintrix.

06-22-2006, 06:23 PM	#85
parlae Registered User Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 1	two-sided? i dont know folks but my hp 1020 is working with older and newer drider but in any case without two-sided printing option.Does it work with anyone's hp? And do you know where is it that i'm going wrong? By and thanks

06-23-2006, 10:03 PM	#86
JWS33 Registered User Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 1	Hp 1020 Hi, I am also struggling with the HP1020 due to some bad info from a sales person. I have followed the instructions as listed on the website and get the driver to appear when I add the printer but it give me the following error. "An error occured while trying to add the selected printer. client-error-request-value-too-long." I have no idea what that means but I have tried numerous different ways of installing the printer software and always get this message. The printer was working before using the 1022 software and driver but now no go. Any ideas?

06-24-2006, 07:56 PM	#87
zlivo Registered User Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 1	HP told us... I've bought the LaserJet 1020 after reading this forum thread, hoping it'll have worked with the Mac Os even if it wasn't declared to. Since the fact that this printer is very similar to the 1022 model (which is Mac compatible), I thought HP did a "marketing operation" forcing the Mac users to spend more than Pc users to get an entry level laser printer. That is not quite true. I sent two emails to HP Italy (that's where I'm from): one to pre-sales customer care, the other (after the printer worked perfectly with my iMac and the 1022 driver) to post-sales customer care. Both emails asked if I could ever use the 1020 with Mac Os through the 1022 driver. Pre-sales answered:"We confirm the impossibilty to use the 1020 printer with the Mac Os platform. Moreover, we advice against using a driver with a printer it wasn't mean for." So I assumed they were trying to cheat me, paying more for quite the same thing: we all know how business works, sometimes... And then the post-sales sentence:"Officially the 1020 printer is not Mac Os compatible. The printer communication protocol, called host-based, doesn't guarantee the perfect behaviour in every application on this platform even if installation was successfull (in fact 1022 has a language called HP PCL 5). Regarding hardware damages to the printer coming from using a printer with a driver that wasn't mean for, we have no reports of any peripheral damaged if installed in a system formerly not compatible. By the way, the 1020 is mechanically very similar to the 1022 printer, which is Mac compatible." In few words, the differences between these two models lay not only in printer speed or the tray capacity, but even in the way the communicate with the computer. This fact brings to the conclusion that if the 1020 works with the 1022 driver is by accident (or something similar). Anyway, mine works! So, once in a liftime, thumbs up for honesty. To tell the truth, HP tols us it wasn't build for Mac...

07-15-2006, 08:07 PM	#93
TheMane Prospect Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 2	So after seeing the trouble people were having here, and after my own mistakes and errors in trying to do so, I thought I should post my little (huge) guide here about networking from an OSX machine to a WinXP machine connected to the LaserJet 1020: --- 1: Ensure that the WinXP machine has the printer sharing turned on for the 1020, a shared name that is no longer than 8 characters (for simplicity), as well as permissions to print for the account through which you wish to access the printer. (the permissions will generally default to letting any account print after enabling sharing so that last part shouldn't be an issue) 2: Download the Zenographics MAC Monochrome Driver onto your mac from: http://oem.zeno.com/public/SDK/4_Mac...er/Default.htm (it's the second link on that page). 3: Mount the Zenographics .dmg and install the driver 4: Open the "Printer Setup Utility" 5: Click "Add" 6: While holding the "alt" key, click "More Printers..." 7: From the first dropdown, select "advanced". 8: For "Device", select Windows Printer via SAMBA 9: Pick a colorful name for your printer and place it in "Device Name" 10: For "Device URI" use the format: smb://usernameassword@WORKGROUP/XP_MACHINE_NAME/SHARED_PRINTER_NAME 11: For "Printer Model", select "ESP" and then select the "Zenographics SDK Mono CUPS v1.1" printer. 12: Select "ADD" 13: Your printer should work! Elaborations for tricky steps: 1: You should know how to do this, but if not: right click on the 1020 printer in the "Printers" control panel and select "Sharing and Security". Check "Enable sharing for this device". Exhaustive information on how to share a printer is readily available online, so I'm not going to go into that any further. 10: This format screws people up sometimes. If you have the guest account enabled on the XP host machine, you may not need the usernameassword section, but just for completeness, you would use "smb://guest@WORKGROUP..." I hate the guest account and leave it disabled, so I set up a special account for printing on the XP machine called "PrintAccount" with a password "LetsPrint". The XP machine is on the workgroup "WORKGROUP", the XP machine is named "XPBOX", and the 1020 is shared as "1020SHARED". My string looks like this: smb://PrintAccount:LetsPrint@WORKGROUP/XPBOX/1020SHARED". 11: If you don't see the ESP group or the CUPS printer afte installing the Zenographics driver, try rebooting. If that doesn't work, reinstall the driver. 13: If your printer doesn't work, look at the error you get back in the print queue. Something like NT_ACCESS_DENIED means the XP machine rejected your request for access. This is either because you didn't enable printer sharing on the XP machine, your printer sharing permissions on the XP machine are wrong, or you put in the wrong username/password combination in the URI string. NT_ACCOUNT_NOTEXIST or something means the account does not exist that you are trying to use in the URI. ---- Phew, ok. I hope that helps. The 1020 is a great little printer (and often very cheap after markdowns). It's definitely nice to have networked. -TheMane

07-20-2006, 05:39 AM	#94
kennon Registered User Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 1	HP LJ 1020 on OSX I bought a Laserjet 1020 yesterday here in Germany, and since I assumed the CD wouldn't have mac drivers I followed the advice from this thread and downloading the 1022 drivers, tried them, nothing worked, then I tried the older version that some people used, still didn't work. Then I just put in the cd that came with it, which had mac drivers on it, and they work perfectly. Maybe HP has fixed the problem already?

06-18-2006, 07:37 PM	#84
pgapro112 Registered User Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 1	I've tried following the instructions given many times but I still don't see the model number in the printer setup. I'm erasing what I'm supposed to, then installing the driver but when I go to the printer setup it fails to show the 1020. Any clue what I'm doing wrong?

06-29-2006, 07:57 AM	#89
spacepirate Guest Posts: n/a	Got one of these here in Australia from Officeworks. Connected the printer, popped in the CD, installed the software that showed up on the CD, added a new printer (it detected the printer, and automatically selected the newly installed driver). Couldn't have been easier.

06-30-2006, 01:27 AM	#91
lilhab Registered User Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 1	Hi everyone, I just bought an HP laserjet 1020 thinking it would work with my powerbook bc I read this forum beforehand...however, it's not the case at all. I tried the old driver version and the installer tells me there is nothing to install. I rtied the new version and it didnt find it in the list of drivers. I tried removing and reinstalling...I tried resetting....I dont know waht to do. I really thought it would work. Can somebody please send me the old driver version bc that seems to be the one that works, right? does it matter what folder these drivers are in? I tried to do all of the possible tricks everyone has posted but ntohing has worked...any help would be appreciated! email me: ishde@hotmail.com

07-06-2006, 01:37 PM	#92
nbholtz Registered User Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 1	I have been trying to figure this out for the last couple of days. The old drivers worked, but the new drivers from the hp site (1022) did not register at all. The key was the older drivers for me. Thanks. You saved me a ton of stress. Nicholas

07-28-2006, 12:24 AM	#95
freakboy Prospect Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 2	just in case anyone else is having trouble getting this to work, the keys for me were to delete the directories as others have said and then i had to quit and restart the printer utility. i guess it rescans for new drivers when you quit. its really annoying that HP doesn't have a mac driver for this printer.

07-30-2006, 04:19 AM	#96
H. Kujari Prospect Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Turku, Finland Posts: 2	I made same mistake as, apparently, many others. I bought hp LaserJet 1020 in a hurry, and thereafter found problems with Mac and the printer. Has anyone succeeded in printing with the following combination of hard-/sofware: MacBook Pro, OS X 10.4.7 and hp LaserJet 1020. — I have tried driver(s) for 1022 model but nothing happens: printing begins (on the screen and job has been performed [but only virtually]). What should be done? The printer description for 1022 does not appear in the list of printers recognized but the printer itself states its identity in Printer Setup Utility.

07-31-2006, 01:51 AM	#97
H. Kujari Prospect Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Turku, Finland Posts: 2	[QUOTE=shamu1315]Thanks for the heads up on the 1020 "series" driver over in the 1022 page. Worked great, and seems to have no problems at all. Have you Intel-based Mac and 10.4.7? Have any experience with hp 1020 printer in that environment? (I hope someone has - good or bad to know if it is worth trying and re-trying.)

08-03-2006, 07:50 PM	#98
brasskitten Registered User Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 1	thank you so much Hello there, oh helpful of helpful people! I just wanted to say thanks for your helpful posts and links about getting the HP laserjet 1020 to work on my iBook. It all started today when I wanted to print out a PDF of a journal article. My deskjet had run out of ink (once again) and I said.. today will be the day I buy a laskerjet printer. So I looked here and there for a good deal on a great little printer and finally settled on the HP LJ 1020. Brought it home without realizing that perhaps HP didn't care much for OS X. When I noticed that the CD was only for Windows, my heart sank. Many hours later I finally got to print off that PDF, but I would have returned the printer if it weren't for your detailed descriptions and links to the pre-1020 drivers. You know.. I still may return it. I don't feel especially like giving HP any of my money. BK.

08-10-2006, 01:49 AM	#99
Aggy_Head Registered User Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 1	I would just like to say that the above-stated solution, installing the old 1022 drivers, works on an Macbook (Intel machine). The OS is version 10.4.6. Now I just have to back up this driver everywhere I can think of. Thanks to everyone on this thread. I think I would have returned this printer if it wasn't for the help on this thread.