HP Deskjet K60

Anyone here have a clue to what I can do with an older printer which does not have Windows 7 drivers? I have searched for weeks in hundreds of sites including of course Hewlett Packard, and the Windows 7 installation disk.
HP Deskjet K60 All-in-One Printer Scanner.
I only have one machine in the house where I can print… an XP windows OS.
Thank You in Advance!!
Answer #1
Most likely it is a driver problem… try dling from here…
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/product?cc=us&lc=en&product=59273
Answer #2
Yeah, I think I said I’ve been to Hewlett Packard in my search for a solution… including your pasted link. It will only offer up this:
“HP Printers – Installing Your Printer Driver Using the Windows Built-in Solution
2011-06-30 , VersionN/A
This document is for HP printers that do not have full feature HP driver downloads for Windows 8, Windows 7, Vista, or XP.”
Not a solution since my Windows 7 Home Premium does not include the printer driver for this specific printer. Probably too old, and ready for the dumpster. Hate spending another $100USD for a worthless POS printer. Thank You
Answer #3
Did you try the old Windows XP drivers..I tried it before with an old printer and it worked..
Worth a shot..
Answer #4
….Auto updating drivers probably wont work… update from the link I provided or do a similar search for older drivers as the lion mentioned… You can get it to work, just need to improvise…
Answer #5
Thanks. I will try some XP drivers and see what happens. I’ve seen plenty of those available. I heard before that Windows 7 has more in common with Vista?
Answer #6
Use XP drives in w7 at your own risk, they’re usually NOT compatible with vista and up. They’ve been known to cause BSOD’s during or after trying to install them.
Answer #7
What a nice post…..
Answer #8
Don’t know what’s not nice about it, its a fact. Talking from personal experience. XP drivers usually don’t work on vista and up
Answer #9
What a nice post.....
If you are talking about post, it’s the truth. XP and recent versions are so different that drivers will have a lot problems running on the latter. A printer can theoretically work, but a more internal thing, like a video card it’s almost impossible that will work with an XP driver on Windows 10…
Answer #10
I have an Epson stylus R200 printer that’s over 10 yrs old that happily works on 7, not all functionality is there like print disc, but as far as photo’s etc, no issues, no 7 drivers either only XP!!
Answer #11
That functionality isn’t there because there are no updated drivers, the only way to get that back is with drivers and hardware manufacturers usually just don’t develop updated drivers after a few windows generations. As long as the family stays the same (vista, w7, w8,…) they’ll usually work. But the entire driver architechture changed between xp and vista making that impossible. Its the same reason why those BSOD’s can occur. And probably also to encourage you to buy new hardware even if the old stuff still works.
You’re lucky to have basic functionality at all, usually there’s no support at all for “old hardware”.