Vista... Still Going....
Software installation update....
Here's my installation update for 3/19/07:
Installed:
- Quickbooks 2007
- Installed Perfectly.. No problems
- Adobe Acrobat version 6
- Don't do it. This is a pig. won't work. Use version 8
- Macromendia Studio MX 2004
- All works well.
- DreamWeaver needs permission to run each time.. Have to check on that
- Flash.. no problems
- FreeHand... Wunderbar
- Fireworks... Changes video mode of Vista to "Basic" while running then changes it back on exit. Otherwise. good.
- Blackberry Desktop Manager
- I'll tell ya now.. Just go ahead and upgrade to 4.2.1.8 save your self some trouble
- HP Color LaserJet 1500L
- No Vista driver.. HP says they will not make a vista driver for this printer. They suggest you buy a new printer?!
- Tried an XP driver for this... No Joy. I'll find a work around though!! Mark My words HP!!!!!
a "Universal Print driver" for Vista... Going to give that a shot this
afternoon.. I'll keep you posted.
* No Vista driver.. HP says they will not make a vista driver for this printer. They suggest you buy a new printer?!
* Tried an XP driver for this... No Joy. I'll find a work around though!! Mark My words HP!!!!!
Have you found a work around!
comments here in case it helped someone.
I initially had the 1500L connected to my Vista PC, and tried all the workarounds such as installing the LJ3000 Universal driver,
i tried the PCL6 and the Postscript versions - none of these worked, AND mysteriously, like Robert Owen, two toner replacement
lights came on! (n fact it was a toner light and the Drumkit light i think)... I know this wasnt a problem with the printer so I gave
up with this.
I then connected the printer to my wife's computer (XP) and it installed automatically, and I shared the printer, then i went to
my Vista PC, did a set up a printer - Network Printer, it installed automatically, didnt ask for drivers, printed a test page (The printer test page says Driver Name: UNDRV.dll, Driver Verion 6.00.) and verything seems to work. I havent done extensive testing but Word, Excel, and IE7 prints fine.
The only glitch is that it takes about 10 seconds to bring up the Printer Properties dialog box. I can live with that....
Maybe if you have an old pc sitting around you could fire it up with XP and be able to use your HP 1500L.
Sorry for the long post, but I hope this was of help to someone.... Calvin Bradshaw.
I was able to install the laserjet 1500 uner windows vista with no problem, but when i tried to connect it to computer running windows xp and share it with a laptop running windows vista, it didn't work for me!!!
I N S T R U C T I O N S . T O . S H A R I N G . L A S E R J E T . 1 5 0 0 . W I T H . V I S T A
(OVER THE NETWORK)
Take your Vista computer and locate your windows xp computer on the network(note: you must first have your Windows XP computer connected to the LaserJet 1500, installed the drivers and be able to print the the printer; you must also have your network established inbetween the computers ... oh yes and make sure your printer is ON:) ) Go into the printers folder and right click on the HP LaserJet 1500, Sharing..., Install Driver, Install Driver, Yes, Next, Have Disk..., (Download the driver from http://drivers.softpedia.com/progDownload/hp-color..., MAKE SURE TO EXTRACT THE FILES), Browse (locate the folder where you extracted the file to, select HPPO.inf and click Open, OK, Next, (it should tell you that you have successfully completed the Add Printer Driver Wizard), click on Finish.
Then go back to the "HP LaserJet 1500" and right click, and click "Connect", follow the onscreen instructions.
You all finished!! ENJOY:)
Visit Control Panel/Printers to verify that the printer is there!!!
The first time I installate the hp 1500 on a duch vista work's fine.
But when I installate a seccond time on a vista english version it went wrong.
So I wonder what happend because it should work on both versions, later I find out that the first time I just installate directly from the original CD and the seccond time I did it by vista let him find the driver self and from there everything go wrong and I also could not use the CD anymore, everytime give me a error if I want to installate. O.K. what I did now was let vista installate the driver and then I change the port in the printer properties, after that I put the CD again in my pc and use the original installion and this time without error message
then I see the first driver disappear and came back again as HP Color LaserJet 1500 and from now it work's perfect under vista.
I hope, I could help everybody with this driver problem.
Hi all,
Like all of you I am so mad about this HP 1500 L not working with Vista that I followed some of the advises here.
Electricity being so expensive in New York City that I finally managed to trick Vista to print to a home made print server using the Linksys/Cisco NSLU2 running Samba on Linux.
I have not yet figure out why I needed to first configure it on an XP machine and then swap it but after 15 hours, I don't really care but share it.
I posted a rough draft on my website at http://www.theochino.com/MSVistaHP1500L
(The English is not perfect, but if you have questions I will try to make it better.)
Sincerely,
Theo Chino (so mad after HP and MS but I will stay polite that I am compelled to share it.)
1. Install printer from within Windows vista as if it was connected to lpt1 port with printer USB cable unplugged using supplied install disc.
It should install OK but of course it won't work.
2. Delete printer icon.
3. Reinstall the printer from the Windows Vista Printer dialog this time with a USB port and search the windows driver list. The HP 1500L should show up.
4. Voila! Happy printing.