Looking for a device which performs the function of printing efficiently, then HP Deskjet 1012 driver printer is ideal device. With its sleek or compact design, it is easy to place this printer, and its installation process is straightforward. This printer has the hi-speed USB port so that you can print the document via a USB device.
hp 1012 printer driver for windows 7
The HP Deskjet 1012 driver supports Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, 8, 10. An Intel Pentium 2 or 800 MHz processors required for Windows Vista or Windows Vista with 750 MB or 2 GB RAM in size. And for another window, a 1 GHz processor with 2 GB RAMS is minimum requires. HP Deskjet 1012 driver also supports Mac OS X v10.6, 10.7, 10.8, 10.9 and 10.7 and later.For all windows version, the 750 MB or 2 GB is minimum free disk space requirement for installation of the file.
In maximum, dpi mode resolution is around 12001200 (dpi) dots per inch. HP Deskjet 1012 driver printing speed depends in numerous modes such as black draft and ISO. The speed in black text is 20 (ppm) pages per minute or 7 (ppm) pages per minute in ISO mode.
It supports two types of paper tray one is an input tray or other is an output tray. In both trays it has different tray capacity like for plain paper there are 60 sheets in the input tray and 25 sheets in the output tray. Download HP LaserJet 1012 Printer driver from HP website
Let's see, HP has made it totally clear that there will be no LJ1012 Windows 7 driver support. Although the printer is just fine it keeps giving the dreaded "unsupported personality" error when it's buffer fills up once or twice a day.
What about us 32-bit Win7 people who have the venerable HP1012? What should we use for a workaround driver solution? Would I follow the same basic steps as outlined all over the net for "Add Printer", chose local port, hit DOT4_### etc.?
The settings on my windows 7 have two possible printers: one just says HP laserjet 1015, the other is HP laserjet 1015 HB. None of those worked for my 1012 printer. Did you change any of the settings?
If you look on the HP website, they show the most recent drivers only for Vista x64 but the drivers are for the HP Laserjet 1010, 1012, 1015. So 1015 drivers will work but I did the install through Windows add printer as stated earlier in this thread and seems Win7 offers support for this legacy printer.
Oddly the HP HP Laserjet 1012 also shows in unspecified devices on the Devices and printers page and did so before I installed the printer...I could not delete it but right clicking and Running Troubleshout gave me the choice to fix it saying "The driver for Generic IEEE 1284.4 printing support is not installed. Install the latest driver for the device." I believe chosing Apply this fix would have made it work. I am hoping on reboot it dissapears from unspecified. I will repost later
I just installed the vista 64 bit driver on my windows 7 64 bit laptop and it is working beautifully. This is the link (sorry I don't know how to shorten them) If the link doesn't work you can search for drivers right on HP's website for the 1012 printer. It shows a list of platforms and I chose the vista 64 bit since a windows 7 wasn't listed. Good luck!
Forgot to add that I installed the printer by plugging in the usb first and then going to the printers/devices area to troubleshoot when the error for the missing driver popped up. I then clicked on properties and updated the driver for the usb port by pointing it to the unzipped file I downloaded from hp (link below). It took less than 5 minutes total and the printer is printing pages like it does for my vista desktop. No weird characters, lines, etc.
Method 2:You may check if you have the latest drivers installed for the device. You may refer to the below link for getting the latest drivers and check.HP Laserjet 1012 Driver
Download the latest and official version of drivers for HP LaserJet 1012 Printer. This driver package is available for 32 and 64 bit PCs. It is compatible with the following operating Systems: Windows 11 and older. Don't worry if you don't know what's your operating system. HP website will automatically detect your device and select the best installer for your OS.
I've recently upgraded a machine to Windows 7 x64. This machine has a 1012 printer attached. According to HP's site, the printer is no going to be supported in Windows 7. Are there generic drivers that may suffice?
Low-end HP printers (ie: Home-use ones) are 'host-based'-only printers. Meaning they use the computer's CPU to do the printing processing, and require a specific driver to do it. This keeps the price low, but the major trade-off is (as you've discovered) when the printer gets end-of-life'd by the manufacturer they stop making drivers, and the printers aren't compatible with any other drivers.
You can try the HP "universal" printer driver, but the 1012 isn't on the supported printer list, and from trying to get 1012's working with Vista in the past personally, it's not going to happen (even with a hacked apart XP driver), especially when you throw 64-bit into the mix.
Unfortunately, the HP LJ 1012 is a "host-based" printer meaning that the print processing is done mostly on the PC. It doesn't use Postscript or PCL5/6 as the printing language but uses a propietary printing language. That makes it hard to use another driver to talk to it.
If you feel safer downloading HP drivers driver directly from Apple, I can confirm this does indeed contain the driver for the Laserjet 1012 (I still use mine, too), which I just installed and can also confirm my 1012 is back up and running. On the downside, this installs pretty much ALL HP drivers too (at least as of the date of the download file, 2017) - it's a huge install (almost 1GB).
thank you for your input. But as you noted - the problem seems to be that Mac has deliberately disabled the function to accept this printer with updated OS as well as the driver not being available from HP.
Yes, I can understand that you do not want to decommission a good printer. Did you at some point try the Gutenprint driver? Also, did you again (during the last couple of days) try the 5.1 printer drivers from HP in order to check whether it contains something of interest? Could this possibly be a driver intended for a somewhat similar but more modern printer (just guessing here)? If necessary, you may have to experiment with drivers for several models. Just as an example, HP's suggested macOS 10.15 download for a LaserJet 1022 is the 5.1 package.
Interesting response - I'm still very pleased with my printer, it works perfectly and it's publicly announced by Apple and HP about their decision not to support drivers for some models of printers.....so its not 'my thinking'. Thousands of people are posting about the same issue with Apple since this update. But thanks for your help, yours is the next model number I will try to solve the problem at least until their decision is altered.
As you can see from my dslreports thread, the crazy thing is, that my own 1018 CD failed to work, possibly because the Win x64 version may have been missing on mine, rather just x32. Whereas freeprintersupport offered the 1018 driver download for Win x64.
I have been working to restore the printer driver for HB 1012 on this Windows 10 computer on and off for over 3 weeks. Your instructions worked perfectly. Just had to navigate to HP to download the Vista 64-bit zip package. Am very grateful for your help.
Using a different HP printer driver to fix the flawed business strategy of not supporting Windows 7 on popular, recently discontinued printers, has been tougher than it should be. As it turns out, there are two major reasons for this, as I recently found out about on a open-source forum dedicated to Linux printing.
The HP LaserJet 1012 printer worked pretty good for most people, but it was falsely advertised as supporting PCL5. Instead, the HP LaserJet 1012 printer actually supports some HP-bastardized version of PCL5. When the 1012 receives PCL5 print jobs it understands most of the commands it receives. Therefore, it is able to handle print jobs correctly that come from another PCL5 printer driver, like the HP LaserJet 3055 print driver for Windows 7.
If you would like to help out, please let me know in the comments or an email or a direct message to Best Hubris on Twitter if you come across information about which other HP printers use bogus PCL5 instruction sets, as well as any suggestions you might have for which (if any) Windows 7 settings or printer configuration options might help mitigate the issue of poorly implemented PCL5 command processing leading to errors inside the printer.HP LaserJet 1012 Printer Driver Windows 7 FailureMy HP LaserJet 1012 printer has been giving me an error message on Windows 7 ever since the release candidate first came out. I got over it at first figuring that it would be fixed in the final release of Windows 7, but unfortunately, that is not what happened. Instead, HP will not support Windows 7 on lots of printers it sold in the years leading up to the release of Windows 7 despite having supported many of them on Windows Vista, and the great similarity between Vista drivers and Windows 7 drivers.
The worst part about all of this is that it takes a college intern a couple of days to turn out a basic printer driver. Of course, that is the problem. The LaserJet series came with bloated multi-function driver / software bundles that nobody really wanted, and that very few people used. However, HP would find it even tougher to justify not upgrading the whole driver bundle than to just abandon the printer altogether. 2ff7e9595c
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