HP D4160 printer drivers

Factual Questions
1

I give up. I’d pit the stupid thing, but I lack the energy.

I have absolutely no idea where the disc that came with my printer 2 years ago is. So I go to the website to download the drivers I need. I follow the directions exactly, without the printer plugged into the computer I run the program, allowing everything it asks. Then it tells me to plug in the demnic device from hell, so I do and it happily tells me there are no drivers. So I tell it to search drive C [hafing only the single drive in the computer] and it still finds nothing. So I unplug the printer from hell and tell the program to finish with the plug and pray later option it helpfully offers. So I plug it in after the program finished, and it still cant find teh drivers. So I uninstall the drivers, reinstall and just go straight to the plug it in later option, plug it in after doing a computer restart. Still cant find a driver.

Does anybody have any idea where i can get the damned drivers that actually work? I can deal with ISOs if I have to to get the disc…I was thinking of pirate bay, or some other file sharing network but I dont have any torrent type programs and I would rather not load one as I dont like sharing access to my computers…

Otherwise, I will have to go out and buy a new printer :frowning:

2

Dumb question. You went to HP dot com and picked the right OS, right? I’ve always had success with them.

3

The HP website appears to contain all the necessary drivers for almost any current OS

Re-check that you have downloaded the exact driver set necessary for your OS.

4

What is your computer’s O/S?

Is your printer connected to your machine via a home network (wired or wireless), or directly hardwired via a USB or parallel cable?

5

wincrap vista, picked the right OS, opted for the whole package not the stripped down one. Followed the directions exactly. There were no error messages when it was installing [other than once i followed the instructions and pluged in the printer and no drivers were found at all…I guess that is sort of an error message as the install obviously didnt work] and no matter where I searched using their little pop up do you want to search and where box.

I just want the damned driver, I know I didnt specify the HP website, but in general when I need something I go to the correct website to get it. I did get it from the HP webpage. I used their little in site search for the specific model and got a generic 4100 ‘series’ driver.

So, anybody actually happen to have the specific and correct driver or do i just toss it and buy a new printer?

6

Have you checked MS’s website? There’s some times fixes for the problems there.