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drivers for HP CP1215 for OS10.10

My HP colour Laserjet was working fine (finally) with Mavericks but now I have installed Yosemite - it is rendered useless again. If I send a document to print - it shows up on the printer queue and then disappears as if it has printed but nothing is getting to the printer at all. Does anyone know yet how to remedy this?

iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2012), OS X Yosemite (10.10)

Posted on Oct 17, 2014 11:26 AM

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Rami_83

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Posted on Dec 8, 2014 4:49 PM

I had the same problem with a HP Color LaserJet CP1215. I followed the steps here and nothing worked for me. I thought it would never work, and that I will have to buy a new printer. So I kept trying until I got it working just fine (I think those steps you mentioned here were important. Although I'm not an expert)

What I did was really simple:

I downloaded the HP Printer Drivers v3.0 from apple's website here: HP Printer Drivers v3.0 for OS X and installed them.
Then I went and added a new printer under System Preferences> Printers & Scanners as shown here:
Now here was the trick. What I did is that I chose another driver from the list, simply because I didn't find the CP1215 driver there. So under "Use" click on "Select Software..." and choose "HP Color LaserJet 2600, 1.6.0" then click on "Add".Voila! This should solve your problem 🙂
Now my HP Color LaserJet CP1215 printer works fine on my Macbook Pro with OS X Yosemite.

I only have one problem though, and I don't seem to be able to fix it. The problem I'm facing is with color prints. Black/Grey prints are really good and seems to be aligned, but the color prints seems to be misaligned! 😕 I am still trying to find a way to solve this problem.

Please let me know if my solution here solved your problems as well.

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Pammv001 Author

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Oct 21, 2014 1:08 PM in response to Pammv001

I Think you are right. I'm going to revert back to Mavericks on my Mac book air so I can still use the printer. But would still like to get this resolved for the iMac iwhich is next to the printer.

Joe Mac

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Dec 4, 2014 7:07 AM in response to fosorio

I posted on the foo2hp forum about this and they also said it was a CUPS issue, but offered no suggestion. I tried your terminal commands but am still unable to print? The printer shows as paused, when I click resume, it goes back to paused after several second. Am I missing something?

Jan 7, 2015 10:59 AM in response to Rami_83

I am having the same issue with color printing. Please let me know if anyone finds a solution for it. And thanks to others for the tips on here, at least the black/grey prints great!

neineves

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May 2, 2015 10:02 AM in response to Rami_83

I managed to Rami_83 help. Thank you!

Aug 16, 2015 6:34 AM in response to Rami_83

Thank you!! I thought I would never get it to print. The colors are off, but I really just need to print minor stuff and this is great. Thanks for the feedback! Saved me from going out and having to buy a new printer.

Nov 6, 2015 1:47 AM in response to Rami_83

Thanks Rami!

It's works for me to on El Capitan, on my Macbook.

Many many thanks

TUUGII

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Jan 5, 2016 6:23 AM in response to Pammv001

Hey guys! I found a solution for the incorrect color alignment, may be a little too complicated. But once done, it should do the trick. (Working like a charm on Macbook OSX 10.11 El Capitan)

https://florian.ec/articles/hp-color-laserjet-cp1215-mac-os-x-10-10/

Aug 4, 2016 10:13 AM in response to Pammv001

Could you solve it?? I had the same problem

I´ve installed it in my mac using the other driver as Rami said, but im having problems withe the colors now! If i print in pc they come out right, but same file in my mac has really bad colors!