I am unable to install HP Color Laserjet 5 on Windows XP

[Caelyn]

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I have a printer and a windows xp sp3 inaugurated on my desktop. By the way the merely driver obtainable for this printer on windows xp is the one with the intention of is on the windows xp installation. I endeavor to "add a printer" ie this model utilizing the add printer wizard commencing from the control panel , and select the model from the drop-down register. The installation procedure begins. On the other hand the installation procedure terminates abruply half-way although and I acquire a message to the effect "cant install printer". I do not have this predicament by means of other printer models on the windows xp register merely the HP Color Laserjet 5. In addition on an additional system through similar OS the same printer WILL install! I suspect I might have accidentally deleted a number of files commencing from the PC by over-zealous utilize of various "cleanup" utility progs with the intention of are obtainable. On the other hand, I am not certain. Please be able to anybody advise what I might do to restore the windows installation or acquire this printer installed on the PC. Your kind assistance would be appreciated.

[Virtuous]

I shall undoubtedly give this an endeavor and let you be familiar with if it works. I imagine it might be superior the universal printer driver does run . On the other hand I still feel I might approximating to repair my windows xp installation if probable. I was not capable to install an optical mouse moreover so to facilitate driver seems to have disappeared too.

[Arjuna3]

Perhaps no driver is desirable here. The 5/5m is a Postscript printer and I imagine does PCL as well. Maybe you do not have encompassed to fix the printer driver install problem it's well talk regarding why HP's drivers do not install additional than cheat and call it one of the Postscript or PCL printers. Subsequent to this numerous years I imagine you must have cheated similar to that. Always supply the model number or folk might acquire the answers wrong. I did not answer the driver install failure for the reason that it has been answered so numerous times on the HP support boards.

[Gajanand]

I be obliged to search discussion for past position on HP driver install failures. I have just recently tried the universal printer driver commencing from HP in fact I endeavor the pcl5, pcl6 and postscript drivers. On the other hand through none of these was I capable to acquire the printer (which is a parallel port printer) to print out. I have encompassed and tried to cheat in the method you said, calling it a pcl HP Laserjet 2100 printer other than to facilitate did not work moreover.

[fragranz]

I have comprised a networked HP color laserjet 5. No driver on the windows 7 printer register. HPs website says you be able to acquire it commencing from Windows Update. The query is, how do I force this download do I encompass to endeavor to plug it in unswervingly, through a parallel cable or something, so it tries to plug and play it. When talking regarding Windows to bring up to date in this context it is not talking regarding normal Windows Update other than the button labeled thus in the "Add Printer"/"Install Printer Driver" dialog. This determine to add a lot of printers to the ones to facilitate Windows 7 be familiar with regarding. I got a driver for my HP930C with the purpose of way and I observe that I in addition at present have a driver for "HP Color LaserJet 5/5M PS" which might be the one you need.

[Jabeena]

I haven’t spent much additional time looking. Acquire the thing free off craigslist it has a number of quality issues (the first a small number of pages come out strange, necessitate to print a few pages for the quality to be OK. In addition when I turn the thing on, the lights in my complete neighborhood dim. Yes, they do similar to the power, I just presently turn it on when I desire to print.

[Madhuparna]

The nice thing regarding these printers is with the intention of the entire of the print mechanism parts are consumable, and the toner is dirt-cheap. Do as self-test and give the impression of being at the report, there is a unpreserved level report on it. You have to observe what's on its last legs. If I had to guess, it is the relocate belt (cheap) or the drum (not so cheap). Watch eBay for supplies, there are a number of enormous deals for this printer. In addition, do not count out the coating rollers. Those are cheap too, and caused me a number of printing tribulations when I first got my "5".