I have an ancient HP 1010 laserjet printer, bought back at university some 5 years ago (lol). Eventually I want to replace this with a wifi printer, but only when this one runs out of toner and so far it's refusing to die. Each timeI reinstall my computer, I have to figure out how to make it work again so here is a quick post for future me, or for anyone else who is looking to make an HP 1010 LaserJet work on a Window 10 machine.
I run Windows 10 64 bit edition and HP haven't produced a driver since Windows Vista. The printer is so old that Windows 10 doesn't automatically detect it as a printer. To keep it going, I have to jump through a few hoops.
First, download the Vista 64 bit driver.
Extract this somewhere.
Then in Device Manager, do Action -> Add Legacy Hardware. Select "printers" from list and in the port dropdown you'll find a USB printer entry. On the next screen, Have Disk then find the driver you've just extracted. Select the right printer and it should install.
And voila, the printer will now work from the local machine.
Of, if you've got a Linux machine sitting around, it should just work if plugged in (Ubuntu 22 for me).
