HP 5.1.1 Printer Software

The HP Color LaserJet Managed MFP E877dn is listed in About AirPrint - Apple Support as a supported model, so you may not even need drivers. AirPrint works with wireless or wired (Ethernet) network connections. However, normally, only if the printer is on the same network (and subnet) as the Mac. Is it not possible to find some kind of workaround solution? Sometimes, one can set up a separate small network (via the LAN ports of an extra, standard Wi-Fi router) just for AirPrint printing purposes, but I have no idea whether that is at all feasible or allowed in this case, or how it would affect the network as a whole.

Thank you for the information.

At least earlier, there was an HP Easy Admin download which did not require a printer to be available:

https://support.hp.com/gb-en/document/c06164609

However, even if that would allow the installation of some kind of printer driver, I do not know whether such a driver would be compatible with the latest macOS 14 Sonoma versions at all.

AirPrint is normally the preferred way, but seems to require some sort of special (bridge) solution or an entirely separate network for printing in this very case. Sorry, cannot be more specific.

Xerox (!) has a (2017) white paper Enabling Apple® AirPrint® with Your Xerox® AltaLink® Multifunction Printer. The general technical information about how AirPrint works, especially the details about Bonjour/mDNS in fine, could perhaps be of some interest to you.

https://www.office.xerox.com/latest/XOGWP-18U.PDF

Refer to link provided.

Specifically, the posting by my " Go To " Printer Expert @ Jan Hedlund " printer appear to be available for Windows and Linux only. "

HP LaserJet 1020 drivers for Mac M2 Max - Apple Community

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