Printing to HP Officejet D155

[Guest]

For this printer the driver is meant to be built in to Vista but when I tried
printing via usb port the job seemed to be submitted but nothing was actually
printed. The HP web site was useless, saying the driver is available in
Vista... Then I mistakenly removed the driver using Vista print management in
an attempt to correct the problem but that made things worse as I now have
completely removed the driver from my Vista Ultimate installation and cant
reinstall even the non working driver... Of course HP dont make it
availble... I guess its on the Vista cd somewhere but short of reinstalling
from scratch! I dont know how to get it... any ideas anyone? I really dont
want to have to buy a new printer...
regards,
Martin

 

[Tom Ferguson]

What happens if you put the Vista CD in the drive and restart Vista?

And, what happens if you use Start Add a printer and point to the
printer in the list box?

Tom
MSMVP
Windows shell/User

 

[Guest]

Hi Tom,
if I put the Vista DVD in I can boot from Vista if thats what you mean but
there is no option to "Repair" Windows and recover the driver... I can only
reinstall the entire windows or revert to a restore point. But I think all my
restore points are past the point when I removed the driver.

If I use start there is no driver for HP Officejet d155 in the list box...
When I say update driver on "device manager" it finds a driver (two actually
wih different versions) but then fails to install because I think files are
missing).

However even when this driver was installed I couldn't print (no error
message were given!).

Its seems to be a pcl 3 device so the solutions i have seen in "discusions"
dont work as they only refer to pcl 5 or higher universal HP drivers.

Thanks,
Martin