HP Deskjet 1050 Drivers

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HP Deskjet 1050 Drivers

I am attempting to help setup a new HP Deskjet 1050 series printer on a iBook G4 with Tiger OS. The only drivers available through HP are for OS 10.5 or greater. I haven't had any luck finding a driver for this printer. Does anyone know of a driver that may work? I considered upgrading the OS. But also had trouble finding a copy of Leopard.

iBook G4, Mac OS X (10.4.11), HP Deskjet 1050

Posted on Jan 17, 2011 10:43 AM

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Limnos

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Jan 17, 2011 10:47 AM in response to bmpeiffe

Maybe Gutenprint drivers.

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Jan 17, 2011 4:06 PM in response to bmpeiffe

Welcome to the Apple Discussions.

The Gutenprint drivers do not support this printer. The HPIJS driver, however, show that they support this printer. You can download all you need at http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/openprinting/macosx/hpijs. Be sure to install all three packages -- Foomatic-RIP, Ghostscript, and the hpijs drivers.

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Jan 22, 2011 7:12 AM in response to Matt Broughton

Thanks, that worked great for me.

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Apr 10, 2011 7:54 AM in response to Matt Broughton

I've downloaded those drivers mentioned, but is there a next step? I can't use the installation disk still (it still says it only accepts 10.5 or above). The printer print's through Word, but to use Adobe Photoshop and print I have to go through the preview option first, ie. I can't print by just clicking 'print'. Any answers?
Thanks.

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