CUPS – installing HP LaserJet 1100 on Windows 7 x64

There are two problems to begin with:
a) Microsoft has deleted old drivers from Windows 7 at default
b) CUPS is not recognized by automatic Windows 7 network printer search

When I tried to install the HP LaserJet 1100 the normal way Windows 7 didn’t want to install drivers for x86 (the only one I had). I didn’t have “Windows Update” option/button HP suggested me to use.

Then I learned about “Print Management” which resolved the issue.

CUPS is “Common Unix Printing System”

The procedure is:

• Open “Print Management” (start->type: “Print Management”)
• Navigate to Print Servers->your_print_server->Drivers
• right-click in the open tab and choose “add driver”

• Click next
• Select ONLY x64 architecture (if you select both you won’t have Windows Update button!)
• Click Windows Update Button
• WAIT – about 3 minutes (yeaahhh!)
• This process takes a lot of CPU time

• Select HP –> HP Laser Jet 1100

• You have a 64bit printer driver!

Now install printer from CUPS:

• Open printers (search->type “printers”)
• right-click –> add printer
• choose a “network printer”
• and then “select a printer by name”
  http://192.168.1.66:631/printers/HP_LaserJet_1100
  
  This address contains CUPS port (631) and printer name (HP_LasertJet_1100) – your address might be (and probably will) be different.
• Wait for a connection
• Select newly installed x64 driver