They will not be sold by Cubicle 7 after that date. (the 1012 prints instantaneously in xp pro, same machine from which i dual-boot 7) anyone have a way to make the printing work faster? It labels the printer 'hp laserjet 1012 hb' the printing is dead slow, about 15 to 20 seconds to start each job. Let us know how it goes, whichever method works for you on the 1012. When 7 first came out, I had to install the vista driver, get an error, and before closing the driver installer which would roll everything back, COPY the actual driver files from the temp directory, and then select 'have disk' from the device manager and point it at the copied files, thus bypassing HP's braindead error message that rolls back the install.

When I run the printer driver from HP, it is tricky, and it *says* it didn't install, but apparently it does, as my printer magically started working. This series of LJ printers has always been a bit tricky, as the printer doesn't have an onboard firmware, instead depending on the driver to load the firmware to printer ram at startup. The driver also offers basic printing capability for many other printing.

Under Driver Software Installation I get message - 6294667. Solved: I am unable to install my laserjet 1012 on a windows 7 laptop (not sure if 32 or 64 bit).

Hp laserjet 1012 windows 7 driver 64big