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As the years roll on, our older equipment seems to get forgotten very quickly when we start to upgrade our operating systems and hardware. One such casualty in this war was my old HP LaserJet 1010 USB Printer, when I upgraded to Snow Leopard on my iMac. To cut a long story short, I gave up trying and bought a Kodak Multifunction printer and placed my working but tired old laser into the loft. Go forward a few years and I face the same scenario I upgraded to OS X Yosemite and then find my Kodak printer no longer works with it! I’m stuck and unable to print, what do I do other than wait for Kodak to release updated rovers or buy a new printer?
My good quality Scottish blood made me see sense and I decided to wait for an updated driver rather than spend more money on something new. But I still had to get stuff printed eventually and it just kept niggling away at me until I suddenly remembered my old Laser in the loft! Surely, there would be a driver available now for this printer under Yosemite? There had to be! So, up to the loft, I drag it down, emptied out 6 dead spiders a rather weird bug and something that I could not figure out at all plugged it in, went to add the printer, and nothing absolutely nothing. I did what any sane person would do, I gave the computer desk a good kick, uttered some oaths to the gods and went outside to calm down for a bit!
On my return, I did a LOT of searching online but could find nothing at all about anyone stupid enough to want their old HP LaserJet 1020 to work under OS X Yosemite. By chance, while searching through the Apple support site I came across to some HP Printer Drivers V3.0 for OS X with a post date of. September 30th 2014! This stated that the drivers here are for OS X Lion or later!
Now, why I could not find this link years ago I have no idea, but I decided to download the drivers anyway and see what would happen. I installed the drivers, plugged in my aged HP LaserJet 1020 and checked the printer settings. The printer showed up as expected. I clicked on the printer. And straight away I’m told that the printer driver is not available from Apple, so I crossed a few things and clicked on the Choose Driver, Select Software option to see what would appear. At the top of the list was the closet driver to the printer, the LaserJet 1022, so I installed that and held my breath!
The printer appeared! I did a test print. And it worked!
Absolutely perfectly! Maybe this problem was sorted years ago, but in all of the searches I did online I could find nothing about this, so I was assuming that people like me, had given up and moved on to better things. If this bit of news helps anyone out then I’m glad, as it’s about time we had more use and a longer use out of our perfectly good working equipment for many, many years to come! Donations always welcome if you have found this article of use! Thought I would share, as I am new to a Mac PC this is all new to me.
HP had a link to Apple site for HP printer drivers for OS X Lion and later when I searched for HP LaserJet 1020, on the Apple site under “HP Printer Drivers v3.1 for OS X” was a download button, after the seamless download (although it did download lots of other HP drivers) I selected the compatible print driver for LaserJet 1022 which was mentioned in one of the earlier posts, this works perfectly. Grateful for the information on this thread, which helped enormously. Thanks for your post, Like you I got it working in Yosemite (Macbook Pro) but it stopped working after I upgraded to El Capitan.
I tried your procedure with HP Printer Drivers 3.1 which uses HP LaserJet 1022, 1.6.1 (not 1.6.0 as you used). But it doesn’t work.
I’m thinking I might have some strange issues with USB ports that’s causing the problem. My /var/log/system file shows the following when I attach the printer: kernel0: 049 HP LaserJet 100: AppleUSBDevice::ResetDevice: Then the following shows up repeatedly. SPUSBDevice: IOServiceGetMatchingService did not return anything for location 0x14200000 Appreciate any insight. It’s frustrating to think that I can’t use a perfectly functional printer. I know this may be a silly question, but have you tried to insert the USB cable into another USB port, just to rule that out? Also make are no other USB devices attached as you do this and see what happens? I’m running OSX El Capitan 10.11.2 with HP Driver HP LaserJet 1022, 1.6.1 and it just works fine.
I have did some searching online regarding your errors at zero information shows up, so clearly whatever the issue is, it’s not wide-spread Try the suggestion above and see if there is any difference at all and let me know! Thanks for your reply.
I have the same OS version and driver version selected as you. Indeed I tried different ports and removing all other USB devices too (I know the behaviour you’re talking about—so not silly at all). But that doesn’t seem to help. I don’t know whether it makes a difference, but I run VMWare Fusion (VMs sometimes grab the USB device and prevent the HOST machine from accessing the printer). But I’ve been careful to prevent that from happening (disallowing and even shutting down VMWare/VMs).
Perhaps there are VMWare services still running that might be interfering. I also did further research on the IOServiceGetMatchingService call and it looks like it’s related to device or driver dictionary lookups (and failing to find what it’s looking for). I will investigate further and let you know if I find anything new.
Hi Stefan, I am running El Capitan V10.11.3 with the HP LaserJet 1022 1.6.1 driver, so I don’t know why you would be having issues When you install the printer, I assume it appears in your printer section but when you print, nothing is going to the printer side? It’s strange that most people seem to have no problems getting this printer working to work one they install the driver, yet there do appear to be issues on other systems. I’ll remove my driver and redo fresh and see if there are any problems encountered, but I don’t see why there would be any. Dear Gordon, Correct, i can install it with the driver 1.6.1 and it shows up on the printer list.
When printing it tells me first “printing” then shortly thereafter “waiting for printer to become available” appears. I also find it strange. I removed printer and tried several times, restarted PC (old Microsoft habit i guess). That is only on the Mac side.
On the Windows side i can print. At least i can print but as you know too more and more you just print out from the Mac side. I feel a bit like an id.t now. I just want to join all those happy folks above and give a Yippee commentfrustratingthanks for staying with me on this.
I talked to Apple, they remotely logged in, they tried less or the same and said ” its outdated, get a new printer”. ? Any more suggestions or somebody that would log in remotely?
Dear Stefan, I hit the trouble like you with my OSX Yosemite 10.10.5 and driver 1.6.1. I also do all things that you have done too. And finally, I found out how to solve my case. I happy to share my story with you and hope that yours will be solved too. I’m disappointed after a whole day long through trying in hopeless. Before giving up, I tried the last once to un-intall all printing driver that I had set on my Mac up.
Including Canon LBP 2900, MacCapV367, and HP LJ 1020. I got double fingers click on every single file in my library and opened it with Disk Utility.
Then I dragged it from the list on the left to the destination field. File by file until the last one.
After that, I restarted my PC one again, plugged in my HP LJ 1020, added printer 1.6.1 in the list and tried to print a page the last once. You know what, the miracle was happen, now I can print by my printer Hope you to get success with it. Dear Duy, thank you for trying to help out here. I did not quite understand what you meant with clicking on every file (where) and to open with Disk Utility. GORDON: i have had an interesting experience today. I am now printing!!I have a 1015 Laserjet and the system found it immediatly without installing, however, the same symptoms with saying ” printing” then after while “waiting for printer to become availabe” eventhough in system preferences printers / displays the printer shows up with a green light.so no difference so far.
Here is the cracker: WHEN SWITCHING OFF Parallels i can print from the Mac side. The printers are also recognized on the Windows side so i can print from that platform also. So in short, i believe it has something to do with Parallels. I dont know why i did not figure that out earlier, I spent a lot of time but the fazit: Laserjet 1020 works! (Just have to switch OFF Parallels each time). Thank you all for your help and happy 1020 printing.
Hello teacher, Wonderful. I am windows user. I bought this Macbook Pro as it is so good that I decided I will start using Apple. I did have any idea how to work on Macbook.
My daughter is teaching me. When I could not find mac os driver for my HP Laserjet 1020 I was very sad that I wouldn’t be able to use my printer and I have to buy printer again. That was my sad story until I found you post and that helped me to get my Macbook connected with my HP 1020 model and it is working perfectly. Thank you so much dude.
God bless you.