Hp Printer For Mac Os Sierra

Mar 21, 2017 Typical response from HP. You will never get any help from them. HP mfp 477 fnw. I am not certain if that model is an AirPrint printer or not. If it is, delete the existing entry in Printers & Scanners and add it as an AirPrint printer: Resolve printer issues on your Mac - Apple Support. If that model is not an AirPrint printer and you want to return or replace it, I strongly suggest.

During the 2000's and early '10's I worked in various IT departments. I still experience a small shiver down my spine and get a twitch in my eye when reminiscing about my days in corporate IT trying to give various network service support to my macOS clients in a Microsoft Windows-dominated world.

While most services on macOS had analogues for their Windows counterparts, printing on the big copier/printer/scanner machines proved much more tasking. Sure postscript might work depending on the copier (and that thanks was owed to CUPS from the open source world) but for our very few Mac users, printing onto machines designed to only work for Windows clients (our CFO found them to be much cheaper) was quite trying. But we managed it, and that's because regardless of what special features or doodads a printer may have, the underlying mechanism and functions are all the same. It's using this same principle that just might help you get your printer to work under macOS.

Printing from macOS

Today with AirPrint and more ubiquitous macOS support you can just about print to any printer you can buy on the market. However, there still exist some printers that support Windows only clients. I for example have an older HP 1018 printer of which there is no official macOS support. But fret not! You just might be able to find a printer driver that is 'close enough' for your printer to make it recognized on macOS. Here's how I got my HP 1018 laserjet printer to work.

Download and install the latest supported driver from HP

First, you'll need to get the latest drivers for all of the officially supported HP printers for macOS. Not from HP, but from Apple.

Navigate with Safari to the driver download.
Click Download.
Use Finder to navigate to your downloads.
Double click the HewlettPackardPrinterDrivers5.1.dmg file.
Double click the HewlettPackardPrinterDrivers package.
Click Continue.
Once again click Continue.
Click Agree to the license agreement.
Click Install.
Enter your password.
Click on Install Software.
Click done.

Set up your printer with the closest match

Luckily for us, HP tends to name it's various printers with similar feature sets with similar model numbers. So, for example, since I have an HP laserjet 1018 printer, I know that a similarly named HP laserjet like the HP laserjet 1010 or the HP laserjet 1022 may share some features with my 1018. So we try to find a best match by iteration until we get the features we absolutely want to work. Note that you may just only get printing working but extra features like duplexing or scanning might not function. But at least you can print. These instructions assume your printer is powered up and connected as expected by the manufacturer.

Go to System Preferences.
Select Printers & Scanners.
Click +.
Select the unsupported printer from the list.
Select Choose a Driver from the drop down list.
Click Select Software.
Search for a similarly named printer as yours. I have an HP laserjet 1018. I found other HP printers like the 1010, 1012, 1015 and 1022. Try to ensure that you get as close a match as possible.
Now we iterate. The plan is to try the first closest matching printer. Select that closest driver from the list.
Click OK.
Click Add.
Open up any text program or webpage and try to print a test page. If it works you're done! Otherwise you need to keep on iterating.
Delete the printer by clicking -.
Repeat steps 3 - 11 with the next similarly named printer model. In my case the printer for HP laserjet 1022 worked.
Done.

As with any hack, success with this 'close enough' strategy will vary by printer and by manufacturer. I also have to live with ignoring some the of the options that come with the 1022 that don't exist on my 1018 in the print dialogs when I print something. No matter. Working printer. Or, you can just buy a Mac supported printer like the HP laserjet 1022. What about you? Have a hack or tweak you want to mention? Lets know in the comments!

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We've all run into a printing problem at one time or another. Sometimes a document gets stuck in the queue and won't print, or your Mac can't find your printer on your network.

Usually one of these steps will get things running smoothly again:

Make sure the printer is properly connected either directly to the Mac or to the same network the Mac is using
Update the printer driver software
Delete and re-add the printer using the Printers & Scanners preference pane
Restart the wifi router and/or printer

But occasionally, these simple fixes are not enough. That's when you have to bring out the heavy-duty tools.

There's a hidden command in macOS that will reset the Mac's printing system. Using it will clear out your list of devices that can print, scan, or fax from the Printers & Scanners preference pane and also do a bunch of behind-the-scenes housekeeping, the details of which you don't really need to worry about.

Because it should be used as a last resort, you won't find the command to reset the printing system in any of the Mac's standard menus, which makes it harder to invoke accidentally. But it's simple to do if you know how.

How to reset the printing system on your Mac

Click on the Apple menu icon.
Click on System Preferences.
Click Printers & Scanners.
Right or control-click in the list of devices on the left side of the window.
Click on Reset printing system....
Click Reset when prompted to confirm that you want to reset your entire printing system.
Enter the password for your administrative account if prompted.
Click OK.
When the reset process is complete, the list of printers and scanners will be empty. You'll then want to re-add your printer.
Click the add button (it looks like a plus symbol).
If the list of options appears, click on your printer to automatically add it to your system.
If a window pops up instead, select your printer from the list of available options.
Click on Add.

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The Mac will create your printer and add it to your list.

And now you have a fresh new printer, ready to expend countless dollars of ink on your behalf.

Any questions?

Do you have any printing problems that none of these steps can solve? Let us know in the comments and we'll try to help you out.

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