Vista - Printing to HP Officejet D155

For this printer the driver is meant to be built in to Vista but when I tried
printing via usb port the job seemed to be submitted but nothing was actually
printed. The HP web site was useless, saying the driver is available in
Vista... Then I mistakenly removed the driver using Vista print management in
an attempt to correct the problem but that made things worse as I now have
completely removed the driver from my Vista Ultimate installation and cant
reinstall even the non working driver... Of course HP dont make it
availble... I guess its on the Vista cd somewhere but short of reinstalling
from scratch! I dont know how to get it... any ideas anyone? I really dont
want to have to buy a new printer...
regards,
Martin

What happens if you put the Vista CD in the drive and restart Vista?

And, what happens if you use Start Add a printer and point to the
printer in the list box?

Tom
MSMVP
Windows shell/User


"gingerman59" <gingerman59@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:17C98BF4-A320-4099-9113-B3F8E3CA9AF9@microsoft.com...
> For this printer the driver is meant to be built in to Vista but when
> I tried
> printing via usb port the job seemed to be submitted but nothing was
> actually
> printed. The HP web site was useless, saying the driver is available
> in
> Vista... Then I mistakenly removed the driver using Vista print
> management in
> an attempt to correct the problem but that made things worse as I now
> have
> completely removed the driver from my Vista Ultimate installation and
> cant
> reinstall even the non working driver... Of course HP dont make it
> availble... I guess its on the Vista cd somewhere but short of
> reinstalling
> from scratch! I dont know how to get it... any ideas anyone? I really
> dont
> want to have to buy a new printer...
> regards,
> Martin

Hi Tom,
if I put the Vista DVD in I can boot from Vista if thats what you mean but
there is no option to "Repair" Windows and recover the driver... I can only
reinstall the entire windows or revert to a restore point. But I think all my
restore points are past the point when I removed the driver.

If I use start there is no driver for HP Officejet d155 in the list box...
When I say update driver on "device manager" it finds a driver (two actually
wih different versions) but then fails to install because I think files are
missing).

However even when this driver was installed I couldn't print (no error
message were given!).

Its seems to be a pcl 3 device so the solutions i have seen in "discusions"
dont work as they only refer to pcl 5 or higher universal HP drivers.

Thanks,
Martin

"Tom Ferguson" wrote:

> What happens if you put the Vista CD in the drive and restart Vista?
>
> And, what happens if you use Start Add a printer and point to the
> printer in the list box?
>
> Tom
> MSMVP
> Windows shell/User
>
>
> "gingerman59" <gingerman59@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:17C98BF4-A320-4099-9113-B3F8E3CA9AF9@microsoft.com...
> > For this printer the driver is meant to be built in to Vista but when
> > I tried
> > printing via usb port the job seemed to be submitted but nothing was
> > actually
> > printed. The HP web site was useless, saying the driver is available
> > in
> > Vista... Then I mistakenly removed the driver using Vista print
> > management in
> > an attempt to correct the problem but that made things worse as I now
> > have
> > completely removed the driver from my Vista Ultimate installation and
> > cant
> > reinstall even the non working driver... Of course HP dont make it
> > availble... I guess its on the Vista cd somewhere but short of
> > reinstalling
> > from scratch! I dont know how to get it... any ideas anyone? I really
> > dont
> > want to have to buy a new printer...
> > regards,
> > Martin
>
>