HP Laserjet P1102w by USB "The disk you inserted is not readable by this computer"

Thank you very much! This saved mine!

In OSX EL Capitan, there is no more option "Repair Disk Permissions", what to do now?

Found solution: http://osxdaily.com/2015/11/04/verify-repair-permissions-mac-os-x/

Fixed for me.

Repairing permissions did not fix it for me, instead updating printer firmware did the trick.

Also, this problem only existed through usb wire connection and not with the wireless connection, so i connected wirelessly and updated the firmware, restart and usb cable connection works normally again. Hope this helps.

I finally managed to disable this setting (HP Smart Install) - what a pain it was! Now it's working fine.

Shlomi's advice won't work with El Captain. Go to this link: http://osxdaily.com/2015/11/04/verify-repair-permissions-mac-os-x/. There are step by step instructions. I don't know Terminal at all, but I still managed to fumble my way thru it.

I'm having this same issue for my HP LaserJet P1606dn. For step 4. I'm unclear of what this means.

Your computer hard drive.

Thanks Eric. I'm running 10.11.6 and when I get to Disk Utility and click First Aid - it's just a button, not a tab. The pop up window says "Would you like to run First Aid on “Macintosh HD” and I see nothing about Repairing Disk Permissions.

You are welcome. Due to changes in the OS, there is no more Repair Permissions, just First Aid.

We have done elaborate tests with this very printer.

If you look at HP's instructions for configuring it, it says to turn Wifi off (which you do by holding down the Wifi button.)

From there, the USB connection will find the printer, but with the Wifi on the USB connection is disabled.

I would recommend powercycling the printer after you turn wifi off if the USB connection seems not to be stable. (ie. does not result in a print job. This happened once in testing.)

If you wish to reconfigure the wireless, that can be done from the Printer Utility as long as the Wifi itself works. select the printer once connected via USB, open the Print Queue, open Settings, HTML Config (meaning Browser) and then a browser window will launch and allow you to re-setup the printer's network settings.

Our preliminary testing indicate this should work through Mac OS Sierra. (the current OS at the time of this writing). It also appears that Apple's servers contain the driver for this printer.

p.s the wireless configuration I'm doing from memory but write back if it doesn't seem to match, or other people can chime in.

Hi,

I'm also having this problem. I updated the firmware and it worked once, but then the next time I tried to print it was doing the same thing. I'm using a laserjet P1606dn via USB cable and I get the same error message every time I plug it in.

Repair Disk Utility/ First Aid didn't do anything. I don't have access to a PC to turn off smart install. How should I proceed?

I did everything Shlomi suggested, no solution. I do not have a PC to use for firmware installation.

I am having printing related issues with the Hp P1102w printer. When connected via USB, some multipage jobs print halfway, out of order and in reverse- then, blinking red light, then after lifting tray top and replacing, rest of job prints on correct direction. On another program, job will not print at all and immediate blinking red light until I lift tray and replace.

I spent 90 minutes on phone with HP rep who told me that firmware should work and that "she's not a computer expert" and "it's Apple's problem". SMH. She messed with my printers wireless connection and now, when I attempt to print job wirelessly, the green light blinks and job stays in print queue as "printing".

Please assist.

I had the same problem, I just solved it by going to system preferences/user & groups/Login items and I delete an HP item that was unknown item . Then I restart my mac and that's all .