Hp Designjet 800ps Driver Download

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Emir Ballard

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Aug 3, 2024, 4:35:23 PM8/3/24

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Has anyone had any success with the DesignJet 800 on Windows 10. For some reason, HP seem to have abandoned this plotter and have not provided specific drivers since Windows 7. Considering other older plotters such as the 70 and 500 are both supported under Windows 10, I find this very disappointing.

Even with bitmap printing enabled, some systems have had problems printing to the DJ 800 on Windows 10 using the DJ 800 driver current at the time of upgrade. Although the printer was present and its properties could be opened as usual, the driver was rejected when trying to use it in AutoCAD.

In these cases, the printer had to be deleted, sometimes forcibly via the registry, then reinstalled before it would work. In others, the DJ 800 driver failed altogether and the DJ 500 driver had to be used, which still was not straightforward. When the printer is shared from a server, the driver sometimes has to be installed locally, then the shared printer installed and finally the local printer deleted in order to leave the shared printer working.

Just use the designjet 500 or 510 drivers as they will work just fine with your 800. If your computer is autodetecting the printer and will not load just turn off autodetect or load it using lpt1 as the port and then change the port to tcp/ip or usb after it has loaded as lpt1. Hope some of this works.

Thanks for the suggestion. I have already done some testing with the 500 driver and found the DJ 800 runs out of memory with plots bigger than A2 on Windows 7, which is the same issue we have with Windows 10. I have yet to try the 500 driver with Windows 10 but it may work with processing done on the PC rather than in the plotter. Could also consider increasing the RAM from 64MB.

I have now done some tests with Windows 10 and found that even the original 800 driver works if bitmap printing is selected. This beggs the question why, with everything else being equal, is more memory required when printing in Windows 10 than Windows 7? Also, if the 800 driver "works" with W10, why isn't it available for download from HP when W10 is selected as the OS, along with suggestions to use bitmap printing and/or upgrade the RAM. This would give the user some confidence in the driver.

I installed HP Instant Printing 3 under Windows 10. It only prints PDFs, but does that really well with good control. You therefore need to make PDF intermediaries from your documents before printing -- but that's not bad practice anyway.

my name is colin and i'm new to AutoCAD- I have a new windows 10 computer and trying to setup my designjet 800 to plot. I used the autocad plotter wizard but I get an error about the driver not working- I can print fine from windows but appears I can't get this designjet to plot using

1: In Autocad, click in the console text bit at the bottom and type in plotter, this should autocomplete to plotterwizard or something like that, click it to open the folder of Autocad plotter templates and double click the wizard to add a new plotter.

Thanks for posting this. I looked around at several other fixes but most of them were along the lines of "try to download drivers for other printers and maybe it will work..." You are the only one that I saw that mentioned this particular workaround which fixed our problem using TrueView 2018. Using your method I did not have to install any drivers. I simply used the existing printer drivers that were already on the network.

You can't type commands in TrueView so the instructions were slightly different for us. Since I wrote these steps for my own sake I'll post them here in case it helps anyone out. Note that you may have to make some changes to these steps depending on how your environment is set up.

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Have you got an HP 450C and want it to work with Windows 8 (32bit)? @AlbanyDriver got in contact and asked me if I could help, after some searching on forums about making it work on Windows 7, I suggested he used the Windows XP 32bit drivers which seemed to work!

I just did this (Vista x64 driver on Win7 64) and it works ok now, at first the test page wouldn't print then I went into printing preferences, although no message came up the next test I printed worked

I've placed a link for adding network printers to the post. The solution in regards to the HP500 requires that it is connected to your network via a printer server (like this one _print_server_ps121.php),certainly ours is although not using this particular printer server.

I am about to hook up my HP design jet 500 to my new Windows 7 computer, and glad I came across this info. I previously connected my DJ500 printer with the old style printer cable ("LPT-1" I think). How do I physically connect the DJ500, since the new computers do not have that old style printer port? There appears to be a USB port on the back of the DJ500 as well. Do I need to do anything different with the setup, or just plug it in?

Thanks a lot dear, after removing the hp GL/2 CARD THE PLOTTER IS WORKING ABSOLUTELY FINE AND NO NEED TO INSTALL THE VISTA32 DRIVERS IN MY CASE THE WINDOWS 7 AUTOMATICALLY TAKE THE HP 500 DJ DRIVERS WITHOUT HP GL/2 CARD.

I installed this plotter last week. Go to Printers and Faxes, Add printer, add it as normal and when it comes to the point to install the driver click the Update Windows button, wait about 5 minutes (or more depending on the behavior of your pc) and once it refreshes choose HP and the HP Designjet 500 42 by HP driver will be there. Choose that and it will work. Worked for me and all 4 computers I installed it on ?

I have a HP designjet 500 with HP Jetdirect 500x box. I am running Windows 7. I can print a test page from the pc, but when I try to print anything else (ie .dwg, .pdf, .wrd) my computer goes to blue screen and then reboots. Any thoughts/fixes?

i have tried almost everything i read here nothing seems to work, we have an HP Design Jet 500 42-in plotter,got windows 7, i downloaded the suggested drivers etc, but the plotter is 24-in n wont allow to print A0. please help

Also the dumb thing is, you install it as a LOCAL printer (not network) even though ours was on a print server, we then waited for the LPR thing to take effect. On the W7 64 bit machine it happened smoothly, but on the W7 32 bit machine it got stuck, but when I rebooted it was ticked so tried it and it printed.