Lost HP Officejet 4215 on Airport Extreme Base Station USB after 10.5

Others have had success updating their AEBS drivers. Maybe that will help?

Having the exact same problem. Searched for driver updates-no luck. Guess we just plug-in direct and wait till HP solves this.

I'm also having the same problem. I'd appreciate hearing if anyone has a solution - I've tried everything I can think of!

I'm having the identical problem you are having. I've been working on it for hours and can't seem to find any solution. Can you please let me know if you come up with a solution and I'll do the same? This is frustrating - almost seems like I'm working on a PC.

Best remedy (in order to "print") is to plug usb directly to your mac. Meanwhile wait till either Apple or HP to do what they have to do in order for our 4200 series' to work with airport.

Ditto here - exact same problem. Just can't select a print driver for it to use, even though the Mac sees the Bonjour connected printer.

Hi, I had the same problem with my HP Officejet 4215 after upgrading to 10.5 (and then 10.5.1 update). Emailed HP and they said they will NOT be writing any new drivers for the 4215, period. Not a happy camper, but I've solved this before so time to do it again...

The solution to using your HP 4215 (and MANY others) with an Airport (print only, of course) is found here:

http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/MacOSX/hpijs

You need to install 3 items to make the printer print through the Airport:
1. hpijs-2.7.10-UB
2. Foomatic-RIP
3. ESP Ghostscript

Everything is found or referenced at the above Open Printing link. In fact the hpijs driver will not install at all unless it finds both #2 and #3 so do them first (or try it and find out for yourself ). 🙂

It's all explained at the link but here is how I did it:

Installed the 3 items above then go into System Prefs, then Print & Fax, then find and double-click on your printer, select Info, then select Driver, then find the Foomatic/hpijs driver that is recommended for your printer. Voila! Airport printing works again, under 10.5.1 even! Or you could wait for HP to write a new driver...

Hope this helps. Good luck!

Thank you, thank you, thank you, Bob! I literally spent hours trying to get my printer working, and now, mere moments after reading your posting, it does again. I really can't thank you enough.

And to all open source/Linux Foundation people reading these postings: you make great applications, but your websites are terrible at explaining _in plain language_ how and when to use them! The solutions are out there, but many of us dummies who don't have programming degrees can't make heads or tails of what we need to use to make things work. A simple set of step-by-step instructions like Mr. Starr's would really be helpful.

You are quite welcome. Glad you got your printer working!

I really couldn't agree more with your comments to the Open Source/Linux Foundation folks. They really do make great things but their explanations on how to use them leave a lot to be desired. After getting my HP 4215 printer working with Airport and OS 10.5.1 I hoped to spread the word that a solution WAS out there!

Thanx Much for posting these links. Airport printing possible now. Responds well.

This combo worked well for getting my printer working again in Leopard! Unfortunately I need to wait for the Airport Extreme fix until I can try this over my (currently defunct) wireless network.

Bob you are a lifesaver!
Same issue w/ our HP Officejet 4215 with Airport Extreme BS and Macbooks,
downloaded and ran all 3 installers and was able to "add" the HP printer back with proper drivers, and it works perfect!
Thanks!!!!
-Skip

This workaround did get my OfficeJet 4200 printing, but now it will only print grayscale. is there a setting or step I missed?