HP driver not available for Mac OS Sequoia 15.0.1

The instructions worked for me with Sequoia 15.1.1. For those unfamiliar with doing this, just download the installer from the HP site, open the Terminal application on your Mac, and copy and paste the script text into Terminal. Then run the installer as you normally would.

I was warned during installation that I was installing a legacy system extension that won't be compatible with a future version of macOS.

MrHoffman

You keep suggesting the same solutions over and over again. Please read the actual messages, I even did some screenshots showing that yes, the printer shows up on the printers add window, and NO, the "multifunction" version of the printer doesn't, making the scanner unavailable in the printing queue window, nor in the image transfer image.

I appreciate your replies since you're trying to help, but unless I've missed something... (and I'm not a newbie, I've been working on Mac Systems since they exist...)

Philippe Mingasson wrote:

MrHoffman

You keep suggesting the same solutions over and over again. Please read the actual messages, I even did some screenshots showing that yes, the printer shows up on the printers add window, and NO, the "multifunction" version of the printer doesn't, making the scanner unavailable in the printing queue window, nor in the image transfer image.

I appreciate your replies since you're trying to help, but unless I've missed something... (and I'm not a newbie, I've been working on Mac Systems since they exist...)

If you’re on current printer vendor firmware, and if both AirPrint scanning and Image Capture are not working, then the printer isn’t supporting the features you want. Which leaves you to get vendor support, see if the VueScan for this printer works, or to replace it.

Contact the vendor about the firmware updates, or about getting working vendor drivers for the features you want, and then failing that replace the printer with one that has better AirPrint support, and that preferably also has IPP/IPPS support, and has TWAIN support for scanners. That gets you out of needing vendor drivers.

Brother Laser/LED printers are the local preference, and that’s having worked with some fine printers including LaserJet 4M, LaserJet 4350dtnsl, and other classic HP models.

Various of the helpers around here have Apple and other experience predating the advent of Apple Macintosh, too.

MrHoffman wrote:

Philippe Mingasson wrote:

MrHoffman

You keep suggesting the same solutions over and over again. Please read the actual messages, I even did some screenshots showing that yes, the printer shows up on the printers add window, and NO, the "multifunction" version of the printer doesn't, making the scanner unavailable in the printing queue window, nor in the image transfer image.

I appreciate your replies since you're trying to help, but unless I've missed something... (and I'm not a newbie, I've been working on Mac Systems since they exist...)

If you’re on current printer vendor firmware, and if both AirPrint scanning and Image Capture are not working, then the printer isn’t supporting the features you want. Which leaves you to get vendor support, see if the VueScan for this printer works, or to replace it.

Contact the vendor about the firmware updates, or about getting working vendor drivers for the features you want, and then failing that replace the printer with one that has better AirPrint support, and that preferably also has IPP/IPPS support, and has TWAIN support for scanners. That gets you out of needing vendor drivers.

Brother Laser/LED printers are the local preference, and that’s having worked with some fine printers including LaserJet 4M, LaserJet 4350dtnsl, and other classic HP models.

Various of the helpers around here have Apple and other experience predating the advent of Apple Macintosh, too.

Then why is it working flawlessly on my 2018 MacBook Pro, running the same system ?

HP is supporting the printer on MacOS Sequoia, it's just not working in a similar fashion on my M4 MacBook Pro.

I suspect the system not allowing the proper "new" installation of the drivers on OS15 ?

Just as a point of clarity: Apple's download page has wrong info on it, making things only more confusing. It says "Not compatible with macOS v12 and newer." That ain't true. The web page itself says it was last updated in 2020, and it was true then. But the download itself was updated in 2021 to allow installation past Big Sur. So, the download page should actually say "Not compatible with macOS v15 and newer." I submitted a correction, we'll see if anyone reads it.

Mucking things up further, there's actually a bug in the Distribution file -- Apple's clearly intending it to allow installation on anything before 15.0, but the script actually allows 15.0.0. So, I guess if you're really desperate and can't get the install working, you could back up your stuff, roll your Mac back to 15.0.0 (you can use MIST to download it), install, update, and then migrate your stuff back.

(Even more bewildering is that the meta tag in the page source, which shows up in Google searches, says "HP 5.1.1 Printer Software Update can be installed on macOS Monterey"...which, apart from being out of date, directly contradicts what the page itself says.)

I have no need to block my installer from installing on whatever comes after Sequoia, so I just decided to let it install what through macOS 19.x.x:

sed -i '' 's/15.0/20.0/' ~/Downloads/hp-expand/Distribution

Thanks for posting the script (which I originally discovered on the MacRumors site linked above). It got my mother in law's 26 year old HP LaserJet 4000N printing on her new MacBook Air M3 -- her first Mac after switching from Windows! The printer was so old that I had to set a static IP on it and tell macOS to find it that way. Life being the ironic thing it is, something mechanical broke on the beast the next day, and now she's gonna dump it, since they have a second, newer HP laser printer anyway. Which, by the way, works fine with AirPrint.

I guess they have chosen not to support this model past macOS 12

I tried editing the installer package too, no succes(

This worked for me.

sed -i '' 's/15.0/16.0/' ~/Downloads/hp-expand/Distribution

i am facing the same issue with 15.1 update. please help me out

I successfully edited the installer package but even tho, the scaner didn't work, my Inkjet 2300 series doesn't have wifi and I can't use network features =(

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