Where can I find drivers for HP printers compatible with Sonoma?

Jack H Ng wrote:

Where do you fine a new driver? HP website after choosing the Color Laser 150nw, they support only Windows and Linux, no Macs,

The printer is an AirPrint printer, so you can use the HP Smart App to connect the printer to the same wifi as your Mac. Once that is done, add the printer on your Mac using the Bonjour/AirPrint option by going to  > System Settings > Printers & Scanners. There are no drivers needed to use an AirPrint printer.

Did you try the HP Smart app from the Apple App Store? I just installed it on my MBP running Sonoma, and it did find the printer on the network. I can't tell if it did anything else, as it's still running the generic Postscript driver.

This doesn't help helpless111 as it is for airplay printers. But others struggling with Sonoma 14 and HP printers in general might find it helpful.

After upgrading from 13.x to 14.1 my printer in the dock became a large "?". It was still in the list of printer but wasn't working correctly. For starters it would not scan. So I removed it and tried to install it again with the result that I could select the printer but not a driver. After a bit of searching I and (randomly clicking???) I got my printer to work. 

possible requirement: HP printer capable of airprint , bonjour on (assumption is that you have bonjour on already since the printer worked before in macos 13 or less) 

These are the steps I took 

1) on macos: remove printer 

(I did the next step because of a search result on getting scanning to work after a 'could not connect error'. it may not be necessary becasue under macos 13 it was on with ipv4 & 6)

2) on the HP printer: (via the internal webserver), change network | general | network protocols to ipv4 only

3) on macos: Add printer -> install ip printer (the basketball/earth icon at the top of add printer page) with ip address of the printer (192.168....etc or whatever you local printer ip is) and protocol AirPrint.

4) check you can print, you probably cannot scan (scanner connection error / or just nothing) 

5) on macos: remove the printer

6) on macos: add printer - it should now be in the list and this time the driver should automatically come up.

result is that it now installs the HP printer with the airplay driver and that the scanning function works.

The effective difference after this success between macos 13.x and 14.x is that in the dock I no longer have the specific printer but instead have "print centre" (or what ever the spelling is of your MacOS language). Printer center (or centre) shows a list of all print devices but is effectively the same for me when it comes to the HP printer.

On reflection, considering the steps I took, it seems to me to be a bug in macos 14 since I got it to work without installing any HP software and just the 'out-of-the-box' drivers. If macos 14.1 was working correctly only step 6 would be needed. Especially step 3 seems to me like it gives macos 14.1 a kick in the right direction.

HP Envy printer working fine on AirPrint all devices -phones, iPads, and Macs. Then the machine running Sonoma 14.4.1 print jobs paused printer, unable to change this. Other devices still all working. In the end resorted to a USB connection to get the functionality back.

Hi Jim, are you sure you are young the AirPrint protocol for the driver? If I use the built-in AirPrint driver for my HP M102w LaserJet, I do not get the duplex nor double-sided option. I only get the duplex option if I use the HP supplied driver (which doesn't use AirPrint)

If you are using the AirPrint protocol, you will see it in System Settings > Printers&Scanners > click on the HP printer > it will show you what kind of driver / protocol it's using. If it's using the legacy Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) then the word "AirPrint" will not show here.

I'm in the same boat. Great printer, ethernet connected, and shared with 5 users in the home. So far, it does work with Sonoma as a generic Postscript printer. I'd replace it, but I just replaced all 4 toner cartridges, so we have to recover that investment first. Honestly, HP is in the ink and toner business. Why wouldn't they create drivers to encourage me to continue buying toner at $125 a pop?

I am running Sonoma 14.0 on a MacBook Pro and can print on HP Color Laserjet MFP M283fdw that connects via Wi-Fi. Was discovered automatically. Printer did need to be powered on to be discoverable.

https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/ish_1864000-1798926-16

helpless111 wrote:

My old HP printer quit connecting with the new Sonoma 14 update on my I-Mac. After finding the HP community site it appears double jeopardy: Sonoma 14 doesn't work for HP printers and HP doesn't have drivers above 13. (Actually, I could only find 11.)

As statements on the net aren't always true,

just wondering is anyones HP printer working on Apple after upgrading to Sonoma 14?

(?)

I see at least 1,500 HP printer listed in Airprint

It is impossible to speculate on which "My old HP printer..." you might be referring to.

Solve printing problems on Mac

Solve printing problems on Mac - Apple Support

If it is listed as AirPrint printer, delete the existing printer in

> System Settings> Printers & Scanners, and add it again, select AirPrint.

Add a printer to your printer list so you can use it on Mac

Add a printer to your printer list so you can use it on Mac - Apple Support

Connect an AirPrint printer to a Wi-Fi network - Apple Support.

Connect an AirPrint printer to a Wi-Fi network - Apple Support

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About AirPrint - Apple Support

obiatoms wrote:

HP Envy printer working fine on AirPrint all devices -phones, iPads, and Macs. Then the machine running Sonoma 14.4.1 print jobs paused printer, unable to change this. Other devices still all working. In the end resorted to a USB connection to get the functionality back.

Make sure the Sonoma computer is connected to the same Wifi, then remove the printer driver from that computer and add it back making sure to use the Bonjour/AirPrint driver.

I too have a new MAC os Sonoma 14.5 and it Won't work with my old and faithful,HP Officejet Pro 8600 printer, which has been the best workhorse printer I've ever had!

I've tried the remove and add printer etc, that many mention and it still refuses to 1. print in color 2. Scan. So I can't continue this time effort of a hack around and now looking for suggestions of model to Replace w/ compatible printer for my MAC. Many thanks ....

Yeah, my now ten year old HP Laserjet 1022 prints like a champ on Sonoma 14.1 What a workhorse it’s been for me.

HP Smart did not help me (I have an HP Envy 6000 that had been connected prior to Sonoma upgrade). Also tried HP Easy or something like that, also didn't help.