Bob Headrick wrote on
"On Windows 7 go to Start, Devicecs and Printers, Add a Printer, select the appropriate port, then when the list of printers comes up select Update. It will take a few minutes for the list to update, once it does the list will include under HP (not Hewlett-Packard) the HP Laserjet 4,"
What is "the appropriate port"?
I have struggled with this issue for two years, but always give it up. I have now followed your directions, been told I successfully installed the HP Laserjet 4+ driver, and a test print page has been sent to my printer. Nothing prints from my Windows 7 laptop to my XP Pro desktop-connected printer.
At some point I added new printer HP laserjet 4+ (Copy 1). Although I removed it, that name still appears in the Printer column next to LPT 1 Printer Port in Properties.
HP Laserjet 4+ appears in the Printer column next to 192.1... Standard TCP/IP Port, and that one is now checked, instead of LPT1, which used to be checked and used to have Universal Print Monitor 5 in the Printer column.
Should there also be a usb to parallel converter cable connected, or is this an either/or solution?
I don't know what it means, but at some point, the accurate HP Laserjet 4+ printer image icon changed to what I'll call a generic model like the other printers/devices.