HP PSC 2110 Windows 7 drivers how-to
“somehow” Microsoft (or Hewlett Packard?) dropped HP PSC 2100 series support in Windows 7…
but you can still get it working…
Why do I care about this very old printer?: I really like this printer, I would never exchange it with another one.
I printed a shitload of paper using this piece of plastic… never had a problem… and not only that: printing with this printer is so fucking cheap!
(This printer support black & white printing using ONLY the black cartridge… it even works without the color cartridge in place! )
Windows Vista fully supported it and the vista drivers works perfectly on windows 7 too…
This trick works with many other peripherals that were supported by Vista but dropped on Seven…
What you’ll need:
- Windows vista dvd ISO (I used it_windows_vista_x64_dvd_X12-61200.iso)
- 7-zip ( http://www.7-zip.org/ )
- 1gb disk space
Ho to do it:
- open the ISO with 7-zip
- browse into the directory \sources\
- double click on the file install.wim
- browse into the \1\Windows\System32\ directory
- extract drivers and DriverStore directories somewhere
- connect the printer, when windows asks about drivers: point it to the directory where you have previously extracted the vista drivers
- done ^^
At this point you will have your PSC 2110 working on windows 7 (both printing and scanning are perfectly working) 
If you cannot find the drivers into the cd this is the windows 7 64bit pack:
http://www.evcz.tk/archivio.files/psc.2110/hp.psc2110.drivers.win7.x64.7z
PS: for even more cheap printing check out Cartucce HP PSC 2110
I can’t seem to get it to work… windows keeps saying it can’t find the driver… I’m trying with different version of the windows vista iso file… but it’s not working so far… any suggestions? or maybe you could share the driver directory you used to perform this? I really need to use my printer…
the .inf name should be: oem12.inf
do you get that one into the vista dvd?
uhm… in the vista dvd there isn’t that file… so it should be looking at something else…
in my case it worked ok with the iso specified in the post :/
I did not do any reinstall after that try
… well I couldn’t find the correct vista iso… so I tried with several others… where can I find the one specified?
thanks for the quick reply btw!
“it_windows_vista_x64_dvd_X12-61200.iso” is the officiale MSDN name (you can access to it with MSDNAA / MAPS or whatever special microsoft partnership might give you access to that kind of resources)
this is the filelisting of the drivers files available into that iso (it’s a 64bit ISO):
http://evcz.tk/archivio.files/filelisting.drivers.hp.psc2110.7z
try to compare it to your ISOs content and let me know if the files are the same.
are you on a 32bit or 64bit os?
I’m on Windows 7 ultimate 64bit.
I’m not really good with computers, I get around on XP but I’m kinda lost on 7… I found how to make lists (thank you google)… is there a way to compare lists easily? because there are a LOT of files on that list…
http://dl.free.fr/oviULYN6R
here is a link to the list I created with wList from the directory. both lists seem identical, I’m checking them by comparing them side to side.
C:\temp\drivers\E1G6032E.sys
C:\temp\drivers\etc
C:\temp\drivers\it-IT
C:\temp\drivers\UMDF
here are those I don’t have in the “drivers” folder, I haven’t checked DriverStore yet, will do so later (unless you have a super fast way of comparing that I could use?)
here’s the 64bit drivers pack that worked for Sebastiaan machine:
http://www.evcz.tk/archivio.files/psc.2110/hp.psc2110.drivers.win7.x64.7z
Thanks you very much EvolutionCrazy.
I downloaded this file but I cannot run it. How can I do?
Thanks in advance
Yves
Hi there,
just extract the files into a directory then tell windows to search for the drivers into the directory
Thank you sooo much! I was having that exact problem, and your instructions worked like a charm!!!Thanks.. Good instructions!