I can not install HP 7130 officejet driver to my Macbook

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I can not install HP 7130 officejet driver to my Macbook

I have a Macbook pro and I just updated the operating system to 10.8.2. I am trying to add an HP 7130 officejet printer driver with no sucess. I have tried installing the driver with the original disc but all I get is the error: You can't open th application "hp all-in-one installer" because PowerPC applications are no longer supported. I tried installing the driver from HPs website. The do not support 10.8.2 and there solution is for me to add the printer driver through Macbook system perferences. There instructions were plug printer up through usb, click add printer, select the printer, then select the driver from the Macbook then click add. This is the method I have used set printers up in the past but now I am finding out that Apple does not offer the drivers any longer. I am at a stand still and can not find anything anywhere on how to solve this problem.

MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)

Posted on Jan 31, 2013 2:33 AM

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Answer 1

sig

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Jan 31, 2013 3:10 AM in response to autoimage

The driver:

http://support.apple.com/kb/DL907?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US

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Answer 2

autoimage Author

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Jan 31, 2013 3:40 AM in response to sig

I have used the method listed in the article you sent and it has worked in the past but since I have updated to 10.8.2 this method will not work. When I try to "auto select" or "select" it give me no options for drivers as it has in the past. Ive tried everthing I know to do.

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Answer 3

ShlomiL

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Jan 31, 2013 7:01 AM in response to autoimage

Hi,

According the list provided by Apple the Officejet 7130 not list as supported by the HP Print Drivers v2.13:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3669#HP

HP also not list the Officejet 7100 series or 7130 as supported model:

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c01664444&cc=uk&dlc=en&lc=en &jumpid=reg_r1002_uken_c-001_title_r0001#N1392

You may check the 3rd party HPIJS print drivers which seems to support your model:

http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/openprinting/macosx/hpijs

Be sure to install any of the three downloads and follow the Set Up Instructions.

For scanning you may check the 3rd party Vuescan software which seems to support your scanner:

http://www.hamrick.com/vuescan/hp_officejet_7100.html

Shlomi

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autoimage Author

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Jan 31, 2013 12:14 PM in response to ShlomiL

For some reason or another I tried these steps again and it pulled the Apple printer softwares up. By chance do you have to be connected to the internet in order for the Apple printer software to pull up?

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Answer 5

sanjampet

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Jan 31, 2013 1:01 PM in response to autoimage

Try it connected, it may have to download some data.

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Answer 6

Nov 1, 2013 2:32 PM in response to ShlomiL

The suggestion from SholmiL allowed me to add an open-source driver for an old HP Officejet 7140xi All-in-One and to operate the printer in Mountain Lion. Before finding this I was trying, by trial and error, to use the generic printer drivers or the HP drivers for other printer models as a workaround. This allowed some basic functionality but I could not, for example, use both the color and two-sided printing features of the 7140 at the same time. The open souce driver for the HP 7100 series supports both the color printing and duplexing (two-sided printing) features.

After downloading and installing all three component packages (HPIJS, Foomatic-RIP, and Ghostscript) available at

<http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/openprinting/macosx/hpijs>,

I added the printer driver via the Print & Scan System Preferences panel, following these steps (in OS X 10.8):

The printer was connected to the local network via TCP/IP.

In the Print & Scan pane, I hit the "+" button to add a printer; in the "Add" dialog box, the printer was detected and appeared in a list of available printers. Click on the printer in this list.

There is a drop-down menu labeled "Use:" that allows you to select the driver; when I selected the "Automatic" option, the correct driver (in this case named "HP Officejet 7100 Series hpijs, 3.10.6.15") was selected.

This driver can also be selected manually from the same drop-down menu.

Once you install the open-source drivers, the official printer drivers that come with the OS and/or are available through Apple Software Update appear in the "Use:" drop-down menu alongside the open-source drivers from the HPIJS package.

Thanks for pointing me to the HPIJS page. Very helpful.

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