hp printer drivers for mac os x snow leopard

Once installed, go to System Preferences, Printers, and add the printer – a driver should now be showing up similar to this:.

Alternately you may want to try foo2hp instead although this has NOT BEEN TESTED. Note that for Snow Leopard (the 2nd package), hpijs is there in place of foo2zjs and it’s not listed as supporting the 1600 – some seem to have success while many do not – you may want to read through a few comments and see. It’s worth noting there’s a terminal/text part of the install you’ll have to answer questions in (for me #2 was the LaserJet 1600). If you’re using 10.2 you’ll want to download the 10.2 files instead.

Install foo2zjs-1.1.2-ub.dmg Note that the one I included in the package is for OSX 10.3, 10.4, and 10.5 (also 10.6 for the new package but read below first).

To install, do it in this order (I bolded the important parts of the names in case you download slightly newer versions): MacOSX_HP_Color_LaserJet_1600_drivers_new.zip (new drivers with SL support – not tested)

MacOSX_HP_Color_LaserJet_1600_drivers.zip (drivers I used) If you’re a little lazy, I’ve zipped all 3 and uploaded them here: The ones you’re looking for are foo2jzs, Foomatic-RIP, and gplgs (choose the gplgs that corresponds whatever verson of OS X you happen to have). If you try and it doesn’t work, there are many possible side-effects: you may end up with printers permanently listed that don’t work, you may have conflicts with other installed printers, and there could be other issues.įirst of all, you’ve got to download 3 programs.

Snow Leopard users however have been met with very mixed results – some get it working, and others don’t.

Thanks goes out to craigverse for the info.īefore going any further, Leopard users seem to have a very high success rate using the 1st package listed (the drivers I used). I pulled the information from a thread here. When you can’t count on HP, the Linux community is fortunately there for us Mac users.

Update: If using Yosemite, Bernard was kind enough to provide some changes and additional required steps in the comments – you should take a gander through there before jumping back to the top to read the original process ( click here to jump to the comment).

Hp printer drivers for mac os x snow leopard