I just upgraded to Big Sur. How do I get my HP printer to work?

How is it not working?

While the software it originally come with may no longer work if its not 64 bit, the Printer itself should.

If you go to System Preferences->Printers & Scanners can you see it there?

If its AirPrint compatible and connected to the same Wi-Fi network as the Mac, it should just appear as an option when attempting to print from any App in the Print Dialog.

See here: link-> Print wirelessly from your Mac to an AirPrint printer - Apple Support

If its not AirPrint compatible but is a wireless printer, see the section for adding network printers to your Mac in the link above.

It would start with you providing us with the explicit model of that HP printer. If it is networked (wired/wireless) you might check if it is supported by Apple's built-in AirPrint. If it is, then you don't need HP software or drivers to support this printer. You would re-add the device choosing AirPrint for the driver.

Ok so this worked for me. As I was trying to print/scan I was getting error saying something like "HPDM.framework issue .." and I was unable to print, all this after I updated MacOS to BigSur.

The fix is as follows:

1. go to settings (top left corner -Apple logo) -> printers/scaners
2. Select your printer and delete it using "-" in the lower section
3. After completing previous step move your arrow towards the box in which you had your printer and do left click (two fingers on a trackpad) -> Reset printing
4. Ok, now Go to Finder to MacintoshHD -> Libraries
5. Locate folder "Printers" - > select all -> delete
6. Go back to Libraries -> find "Image Capture" folder and inside of it "Devices" - > delete contents
7. In my case since I have HP printer go to hp support, or google it in search for drivers
8. once you find drivers for your printer check for the latest version of the driver and download it.
9. In case of HP the driver comes with Wizard that's going to guide you through the setup
10. Now you are done -> you can print and scan just as you wanted :)

The last driver support from HP for the Photosmart C4480 was for OS X Mavericks in 2014. It is not supported by GutenPrint either.

You have been using a 32-bit driver and now that driver is unsupported in macOS Big Sur which requires 64-bit drivers. HP gave up on this device several years ago. Any replacement printer you decide upon should indicate that it supports Apple's AirPrint, and/or is on the AirPrint list of supported printers.

[Update. I see you got it working, but don't know how that is possible with that age of printer and lack of driver support]

As I said, the Printer should continue to work. its bundled software might not.

If you turned off the computer between updating and now, the reboot may have allowed macOS to rescan connected devices and correctly detect it.

Glad it is working now.

Hi

after an intermidiate upgrade 11.2 -- > 11.3 my HP Laserjet 2420dn sopped working. And only after i got the x86 emulation reinstalled it was working again.

Somehow the ppd of the old hp printer seem to have issues.

P.S.: This is related to M1 machines.

tesme33 wrote:

Hi

after an intermidiate upgrade 11.2 -- > 11.3 my HP Laserjet 2420dn sopped working. And only after i got the x86 emulation reinstalled it was working again.

Somehow the ppd of the old hp printer seem to have issues.

P.S.: This is related to M1 machines.

As was mentioned, the software part of it may not work. The printer should continue to work without the software and without Rosetta for Intel translation (not x86 emulation), by adding it directly in the Printer settings in System Preferences if its not automatically detected.

Don't get too fixated on wireless networking. I have a wired Samsung ML-2955ND that is supported by AirPrint on Big Sur as it is on Mojave.

Maybe should have said Network Capable rather than wireless.

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