On 4/8/2019 6:10 PM, Ant wrote:
In alt.comp.periphs.printers GlowingBlueMist wrote:
On 4/8/2019 3:22 PM, Ant wrote:
My colony still uses a HP LaserJet 6P connected to a 2008 15" MacBook
Pro with parallel - USB adapter. I had to install Gutenprint's printer
drivers in Mac OS X (Leopard v10.5.8 and El Capitan v10.11.6) to use it.
I still have my HP PhotoSmart 8450 inkjet printer. They both mostly work
with a few minor annoying issues (e.g., paper feeds).

Thank you for reading and hopefully answering.


I have a HP LaserJet 4100 I inherited when I retired that I still use
almost daily.

Nice being able to get around 10000 pages per cartridge.
I have even been able to locate a few new cartridges that were donated
to Habitat for Humanity and the Salvation Army stores for around $3 to
$5 bucks so I don't have to deal with the mess of refilling the old ones
or paying retail for new ones, so far.

None of those dreaded drop dead IC chips in these toner cartridges
trying to kill off the old beast so the age of a sealed toner cartridge
is not a problem.

The beast works just fine with the latest Windows 10 Pro or when using
my VMware Workstation virtual versions of XP, W7, W8 machines.

Nice. Did Windows include drivers for it already or did you have to find
and download them?

Windows 10 did not have the drivers for or automatically discover the
printer when first installed.

Mine has an Ethernet adapter in it so I used the manual method and
choose the IP address (or port) of the printer.

I had to use the Microsoft Update method, which took quite a while to
download the drivers. After that there were 2 sets of Hewlett Packard
and one HP directory of drivers. I found the LaserJet 4100 driver in
the HP directory which I installed.