Hp Laserjet 1018 Windows 10 Not Working

[Maggie Szydlowski]

Ive got an HP Laserjet 1018 that works just fine on Windows Vista 64-bit. I just built a new PC and put Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit onto it. The drivers on the HP support site don't work. When I try printing something, it gets sent to the printer and just disappears. I pause printing to see that the document actually does get sent to the printer and it shows up. As soon as I un-pause the printer, the document disappears, but nothing prints. Normally, when something is sent to the printer, the yellow "information" LED lights up momentarily and the document then prints. The LED does not light up at all. I have tried new cables, uninstalling and re-installing, etc. Nothing works. Just to be sure that it isn't a general printing problem, I hooked up a Laserjet 1020 onto the new machine and it works just fine. However, that's my work printer and I can't leave it on the new computer which is a personal computer for my home. This worked to identify that my copy of Windows 7 can indeed print, but this cannot be a long-term solution. Help?

Thanks for the post. On this one, I have a couple of ideas. I've pasted the links below. One is for the Win7/64 driver page and the print diagnostic utility. I would certainly recommend the utility to help narrow down the issue. The other is a queue related document which has some excellent information. Good Luck!

I tried to download the drivers and software from HP site. I have an HP 2009m desktop. the download goes through fine, but when asked for install, it tells me my laserjet1018 is not plugged in and is waiting for me to plug it in. I have tried different cords, different USP ports, turning it off and turning it back on, nothing is working any help given would be appreciated. SIDENOTE* I do have the printer installed on a toshiba laptop, but I do not know how to access the driver/software so I can copy it to a flash and put it on the desktop. any suggestions would be helpful

Thanks for the post. Hmmm, this one is being difficult eh? At first glance, I would agree with you, either the USB cable or the USB port on your desktop system, but since you tried both let's check the below link for some excellent t-shooting steps. Good Luck!

Unfortunately, when I put in HP Laserjet 1020, the HP website does not give me a driver to download. I am looking for a driver for Windows 10, 64 bit. You would think HP would adequately support their older, fully functional, printers!

Hi i have followed the advice HP have to go to win 10 and get drivers, but it is not working. could you just send me the HP laserjet driver 1018 and 1020 please. I have ended up going in circles and just can't get it to work. I have a wonderful HP1018 and it is working fine except when Win10 was re-installed they baselined and i lost the driver. i've been at this for hours! Please help!

This is so bad. When using the Scan Doctor and you try to Get Installer, it can't even find the page!!!! What are we supposed to do with our 1018 Printer? Just toss it because HP can't be bothered making the driver available? If I get a new printer, it sure won't be an HP.

p910nd Print Server p910nd is a small printer daemon intended for diskless platforms that does not spool to disk but passes the job directly to the printer. Normally a lpr daemon on a spooling host connects to it with a TCP connection on port 910n...

Great wiki! Followed it to the letter and got my Laserjet 1018 to print successfully from my Asus router w/ OpenWRT. (and the scripty goodness ensures the printer works as soon as it turns on. A master stroke!)

When you select Print on Both Sides (Manually) then send a document, the odd pages are printed in descending order, then a popup appears on the Windows machine telling you to reload the pages. After you confirm, the even pages are printed in ascending order. This option works fine on my old (no longer working) TP-Link print server and of course when the printer is directly hooked up to the Windows machine.

maybe as an alternative - you coul duse 'USB over IP' driver in the openwrt box and on your PC. that would effectvely create a (remote) USB connectin from your PC to the printer. then the printer could send your PC-based printer driver the signal to give you the pop-up message.

To fix this, just download 7-zip for free and after you install it right-click on the downloaded HP driver package and select Extract to or Extract here commands from the pop-up menu.

Thank you so much, Nik ! Same comment as Stefff ? and like Aitiguy it worked straight away, nothing else was required. I just plug my HP 1018, restarted word, it recognized the printer and i could print out with my new acer.

I had just changed machines where was previously running my old HP laserjet 1018 under win 10 64 bit with I believe a driver for win 7.1 or 8.1 but could not find a solution for my new computer (lenovo) Mar 2020. Ttied everywhere and unsuccessful until I found Wincert.net. Thanks so much. worked immediately after 2 min d/L and install.

Still working great. Thank you Nik for this. Like others, the Win 10 install indicated it was done automatically, but nothing in printers and drivers. I had tried several HP drivers and all had failed to find the printer or kacked on installation

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Unfortunately, I have also had to follow Tim's advice - but I learned the hard way. I originally got an error in Vista Business (ick) saying "Spooler SubSystem App has stopped working." Then no printers would work HP, Epson, or otherwise. Could not get the Spooler to start again without crashing. So I followed similar advice from another source (basically the same instructions as what Tim has linked) that had me completely uninstalling Adobe Reader and all my other printers, deleting printer keys from the registry, deleting from C:/Windows/System32/Spool, and then uninstalling and reinstalling Windows Scan and Print functionality. As long as I don't ever reinstall Adobe Reader (any version - and I've tried as far back as 7), then I'm fine. I've found Foxit to be a good substitute to Reader.

You'd think Adobe would have a fix for this already. Especially when people are migrating away from their software. I can never install another piece of Adobe software on my system again because it crashes the printers, so my plans for Photoshop or Acrobat are out the window. I've got a system that's only a couple of months old, too. This sucks - big time.

Other forums - especially those from Windows and Adobe - will tell you it's a problem with your print drivers. I had 3 different newer printers go down and none would function - even when installed alone with the latest and greatest drivers - once Reader was installed. They all work fine on their own when Adobe software is not installed. As soon as Adobe Reader (7,8,or 9 versions) is installed, the print spooler crashes again. I guess I'm sticking with Foxit.

I have a client that has been dealing with this issue on a large scale. Close to 200 computers running Adobe, most with HP 1022 printers as local printers. Since Adobe isn't responding to the issue with an update, we (they) are migrating away. For most users downloading Foxit reader and using that to view and print .PDF's solves the issue. Shame that Adobe is losing customers over this but when you don't fix the problem there isn't much of a choice.

Our problem is we heavily use Adobe Pro and Adobe Standard to create documents. HP was zero help. But, I hooked up a Dell 1110 printer to one of the computers and the problem disappeared. So we are replacing the printers using a volume purchase from Dell. This was less expensive than continuing to waste labor cost on trying to solve the problem of driver/software incompatibility.

Every program that prints that I have tested so far releases these temporary files after the print job is over and they are deleted (presumably by the spooler). Printing with Adobe Reader leaves them in the folder. Next time you start a print job, the spooler crashes.

I downloaded Foxit, and without any other changes, it works fine. No crashes. Unambiguously, the problem is with Adobe. Should be fairly easy to fix (probably Adobe just has to release the files so the spooler can delete them).

I'm (a) really disappointed that Marjon01 had to reinstall Windows OS to fix this, but (b) really pleased that we seem to be coning down on the problem. When I originally discovered the problem 2 years ago it was with a Dell Inspiron computer with a Vista 32 bit OS, which required reinstallation by Dell remote tech support (what a hassle - 1.5 days of downtime prior to the fix). However, in the intervening period I have discovered progressively more efficient ways to fix the spooler problem and reduce downtime. I think that this combination generates corrupt registry keys (which we are told not to fool with, and also to avoid registry cleaners), but there was no way to efficiently delete and reinstall the printer driver because the printer spooler kept stopping before I could delete the printer driver. However, I purchased an online application called "Printer Spooler Fix Wizard" for about $29 which deletes the corrupt registry keys and the HP 1020 printer driver simultaneously (sorry, I do not know where I purchased that application, but it enjoys a coveted place on my Start menu!). This wizard allows you to become functional very quickly and delete the offending document in the printer cache in order to start over again. Now when this happens, I either (a) convert every incoming PDF to a Adobe 9.X-compatable PDF and then print it on the HP 1020 printer (which is somewhat time-consuming) or (b) if I am feeling lucky, just try to print the PDF on its own without conversion using Adobe 9.X. If I then get a spooler alert, then I simply run the wizard (as discussed above), reinstall the 1020 driver and then re-render the incoming PDF using Acrobat 9.X.

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