“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 🙂