HP OfficeJet 7310 Drivers?

[g.poplett]

Hi - I am trying to get a HP OfficeJet 7310 printer working on our
Windows 2000 domain. We have a print server where we install all of our
printers. To install a printer I need just the drivers only but I can
only find or seem to be able to get hold of the full software which
installs the officejet manager and everything. I do not want this and
cannot be installing that on a print server. I just want the driver.
Any ideas?????

 

[tinnews]

Hi - I am trying to get a HP OfficeJet 7310 printer working on our
Windows 2000 domain. We have a print server where we install all of our
printers. To install a printer I need just the drivers only but I can
only find or seem to be able to get hold of the full software which
installs the officejet manager and everything. I do not want this and
cannot be installing that on a print server. I just want the driver.
Any ideas?????

From what I remember there's a 'compact' (ha, ha) version of the 7310
software that installs very little more than just the drivers.

Yes, here you go:-
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/...roduct=391182&lang=en&softwareitem=oj-30589-1

That's "HP Basic Feature software/driver: Network Support".

When you say you "have a print server" do you mean a PC where you
install all the printers or do you mean an actual print server?

 

[g.poplett]

We have a clustered Windows 2000 Server which have 2 virtual servers
set up on them which act as our 2 print servers. All the printers are
set up on there with shares and then using a script file we deploy them
out to all the pc's at logon.

I will try that driver. Thanks.

 

[g.poplett]

Hi - I installed that software and yeah it just installed a load of
files into a folder. However, when I go to add new printer and then try
and browse to pick up the OfficeJet 7310 driver, there isnt a file with
this driver on it. It just keeps coming up with HP Instant Share and if
I try to use this it then asks for a .dll file which does not exist
anywhere so i cannot go any further with it. Please help!!!

 

[tinnews]

We have a clustered Windows 2000 Server which have 2 virtual servers
set up on them which act as our 2 print servers. All the printers are
set up on there with shares and then using a script file we deploy them
out to all the pc's at logon.

I will try that driver. Thanks.

How are you connecting the 7310 to the Windows 2000 Server? I'm not
sure what the consequences are if you use the printer's netork
connection to connect it but then use it via sharing on a PC (I'm not
a Windows guru by any means). I suppose it should be OK.

 

[tinnews]

Hi - I installed that software and yeah it just installed a load of
files into a folder. However, when I go to add new printer and then try
and browse to pick up the OfficeJet 7310 driver, there isnt a file with
this driver on it. It just keeps coming up with HP Instant Share and if
I try to use this it then asks for a .dll file which does not exist
anywhere so i cannot go any further with it. Please help!!!

I'm a bit out of my depth now. I installed the "Basic Feature"
software on my win2k system but it was quite a while ago and I don't
remember the details exactly.

However I am pretty sure that the installation is *all* driven by the
stuff you download, you don't have to use the Windows "install a
printer" stuff. If I remember correctly you download the software,
run it and it asks you a few questions, detects the printer on the
network (if you are using the network interface) and then installs
all you need. The 7310 printer will automagically appear as an
available printer.

Again if my memory serves me correctly, you *must* install the
software *before* connecting the printer if you are using the USB
interface. (See instructions below)

For installation instructions see:-
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/...oduct=391182&os=181&lang=en&docname=c00217820
You should see this sequence of screens even when running the
downloaded drivers as opposed to running from CD.

After unpacking the downloaded software is there a setup.exe there? If
so you need to run it.

 

[g.poplett]

Hi

Thanks for the reply but you are not understanding what I am saying.
The printer is not attached to a server or pc so therefore has not got
a usb connection and when i install the driver on the server it will
never detect the printer because it is not on the server.

Also I cannot install software onto a windows 2000 print server because
that then makes the server messy hence why I just want the ability to
install the drivers only and no software. I need to be able to add the
printer using windows, connecting it to an Standard TCP/IP port like I
do with all my others printers then browse for the driver to install
and then it installs the printer on the server. I then share the
printer name out, give the physical printer the IP address i created
and then get users to connect to it.

Thats the process but i can install the printer onto the server because
I have no drivers for it which is what I am trying to get without all
the software it installs?

Graham

 

[Amanda]

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If I remember correctly you download the software,
run it and it asks you a few questions, detects the printer on the
network (if you are using the network interface) and then installs
all you need. The 7310 printer will automagically appear as an
available printer.

For installation instructions see:-
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/...oduct=391182&os=181&lang=en&docname=c00217820
You should see this sequence of screens even when running the
downloaded drivers as opposed to running from CD.

After unpacking the downloaded software is there a setup.exe there? If
so you need to run it.

Hi, the other day, when I downloaded the driver for HP 5610 to my
sister's laptop - celeron- it took forever. What could be the reason?
She lives in a big house on a 5 acres land with wirelss router bought
from the ISP - Motorola SGB 940.

I need to return that 5610 and get her 6310 (for wireless printing). I
am feeling dreadful about the downloading process. She only has DVD
ROM drive in her laptop.

 

[Bob Headrick]

Hi - I am trying to get a HP OfficeJet 7310 printer working on our
Windows 2000 domain. We have a print server where we install all of
our
printers. To install a printer I need just the drivers only but I can
only find or seem to be able to get hold of the full software which
installs the officejet manager and everything. I do not want this and
cannot be installing that on a print server. I just want the driver.

Try installing the print driver for the DeskJet 6520. See
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/...docname=c00302767&lc=en&jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN
for a general list of alternative print drivers for HP all-in-one units.

Regards,
Bob Headrick, MS MVP Printing/Imaging

 

[tinnews]

Hi

Thanks for the reply but you are not understanding what I am saying.
The printer is not attached to a server or pc so therefore has not got
a usb connection and when i install the driver on the server it will
never detect the printer because it is not on the server.

So the "windows 2000 print server" has nothing to do with it at all!
Why did you even introduce that into the equation?

Also I cannot install software onto a windows 2000 print server because
that then makes the server messy hence why I just want the ability to
install the drivers only and no software. I need to be able to add the
printer using windows, connecting it to an Standard TCP/IP port like I
do with all my others printers then browse for the driver to install
and then it installs the printer on the server. I then share the
printer name out, give the physical printer the IP address i created
and then get users to connect to it.

OK, so you are using the TCP/IP networking on the 7310, that's what
I'm doing.

Thats the process but i can install the printer onto the server because
I have no drivers for it which is what I am trying to get without all
the software it installs?

I think it's you that are a little confused. You don't want to
"install the printer onto the server" because, as you have just told
me "I cannot install software onto a windows 2000 print server because
that then makes the server messy".

As I understand it you *have* to install the printer software to get
the drivers installed, it may well be that you can uninstall some of
the stuff it installs after doing this.

 

[Otto Sykora]

Since I had some bad experience with this kind of 'driver' software,
here what I experienced:

first install:
all runs apparently ok, but there is no printer here later, no
communication etc. Unfortunately, during the istallation, the software
tells it found the printer on some port, but often this is the USB
cable, even non USB cable is connected at all.
Later lot of files are unpacked in an folder for nothing.

2nd:
unistall all from windows
delete the folders with lot of megabytes of junk.

second install:
here it looks it has left some rests of system and it looks as it
installs now correctly.
the communication will also not start imediately, little bit of
trying here.
when finaly prnter detected, all will be ok from that moment, provided
you do not install it again, then all will dissappear again, including
the tcp/ip communication to it.


at the end, the junk in the various temp folders of this installation
can be deleted.

under w2k it is a pain, apparently the sw was never tested on this