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wnlewis

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I have a Mac Pro 5,1 (upgraded Mac Pro 4,1) running Sonoma (using OCLP). It will scan from a USB connected HP 1510 All-In-One Printer Scanner Fax. It will not print.

HP Easy Scan works.

The computer sees the printer. It even sees the ink levels. But it will not print.

Is there a generic printer driver that can be installed that will all me to print to the printer?

Thank you for your help.
 
According to HP support site, you printer is not supported in macOS. You can try to install Generic Postscript Printer or Generic PCL Printer drivers. You might get lucky.
 
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Hi just wanted to share... I got the HP support driver to work and you can copy and paste below to terminal.

curl -o ~/Downloads/hpdrivers.dmg curl -o ~/Downloads/hpdrivers.dmg https://updates.cdn-apple.com/2021/...C17B8FDC4D90/HewlettPackardPrinterDrivers.dmg

hdiutil attach ~/Downloads/hpdrivers.dmg

pkgutil --expand /Volumes/HP_PrinterSupportManual/HewlettPackardPrinterDrivers.pkg ~/Downloads/hp-expand

hdiutil eject /Volumes/HP_PrinterSupportManual

sed -i '' 's/15.0/16.0/' ~/Downloads/hp-expand/Distribution

pkgutil --flatten ~/Downloads/hp-expand ~/Downloads/HP_Drivers_15.0.1.pkg

rm -R ~/Downloads/hp-expand
 
It does not work in terminal as one whole string - at least it didn't when I tried it.
I notice when I copy and paste here it does not work .. I just tried it again direct from the text edit file (that I wrote the script) to terminal and it works

Try copying the code there and then only to terminal .. it could be a formatting issue.
 
curl -o ~/Downloads/hpdrivers.dmg curl -o ~/Downloads/hpdrivers.dmg https://updates.cdn-apple.com/2021/...C17B8FDC4D90/HewlettPackardPrinterDrivers.dmg





hdiutil attach ~/Downloads/hpdrivers.dmg





pkgutil --expand /Volumes/HP_PrinterSupportManual/HewlettPackardPrinterDrivers.pkg ~/Downloads/hp-expand





hdiutil eject /Volumes/HP_PrinterSupportManual





sed -i '' 's/15.0/16.0/' ~/Downloads/hp-expand/Distribution





pkgutil --flatten ~/Downloads/hp-expand ~/Downloads/HP_Drivers_15.0.1.pkg





rm -R ~/Downloads/hp-expand
 
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