Hp-PSC1200 Printer Drivers Windows 7

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2014-07
  • Rumanoid

    I have a Hp-g62 laptop with windows 7 home premium x64 and a HP psc-1200 series all-in-one printer.

    Windows cant find the drivers for the printer, and the HP support website says the drivers are already included in windows 7 (which isn't true). Scanning via Paint.net does work, its just the printing

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  • hdhondt

    To install the printer, go to Devices & Printers. Click on Add a Printer and go through the process. When asked for the printer model, click on Windows Update. That will let you download the driver from Microsoft, and you can then continue with the rest of the installation.

    If the printer is USB connected it should start this process automatically when you plug the printer in.


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  • Aron Rotteveel

    I recently bought a HP Officejet 6500, which has the ability scan and fax, besides the default printer functionality.

    Howvever, it turns out that the drivers on the CD-ROM and HP website do not support Windows 7. I already tried running the setup.exe in compatibilty mode and I even tried manually installing the .msi packages, with no success.

    I am almost certain that there is no actual problem with installing these drivers, as Windows Vista drivers work in almost every case on Windows 7. I am guessing there is simply a hardcoded "block" in the setup file which does not allow me to install the driver.

    Besides running application in compatibility mode, is there any other way to actually trick an application into believing you run another OS?


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  • harrymc

    you can try to extract the drivers from the MSI package and force-install the driver via the device manager.

    right click the device > update driver software ... > Browse My Computer ... > Let me pick from a list > Have Disk ... > point to the *.inf file you have extracted and ignore any warnings.

    before you do that, you may create a drive image of your windows 7 partition, in case something does not go according to your plan.