HP Laserjet 1020 Plus driver for Mac OS 26 (Year 2025 Version)

John Galt wrote:

The Raspberry Pi print server solution Jan Hedlund alluded to in his reply to the OP is one I recommend for those motivated beyond mere economic concerns to keeping a particular printer in service.

HP's more recent products are unmitigated junk that should be sent directly to landfills upon production. The 1000 series was one of HP's last good ones. If I were you I'd invest in that workaround.

The problem with building your own print server for a printer puts you pretty quickly up into the same range — the aggregate of money, time, complexity, and self-support costs — as replacing the printer with whatever AirPrint-capable Brother laser printer is on sale this week.

I hauled out what had been a very nice HP LaserJet 4300 a while back, as the plastic rollers throughout the paper path had reverted into primordial plastic goo, and other plastics were similarly failing. Tried a roller replacement kit too, and unsuccessfully. The local Brother just keeps going.

llembree wrote:

It’s very frustrating that my perfectly good HP1020 printer can’t connect to my mini Mac. Any updates on this?

HP has suggestions here: https://support.hp.com/gb-en/document/ish_6966654-6966703-16

What can you do beyond what HP offers with their product? Not much. Not unless the printer has sprouted AirPrint support, or the printer vendor has decided to retrofit support, or you’ve decided to set up your own print server. (And setting up a print server usually ends up costing as much or more — in terms of pieces, parts, time, and hassles — as does replacing it with an AirPrint-capable printer.)

Printers lacking AirPrint and IPP/IPPS are always going to be dependent in the availability drivers, and the cheapest printers (host-based rendering GDI, etc) are totally reliant on those vendor drivers.

Buying printers without AirPrint (or maybe IPP/IPPS) support can mean replacing the printer before it might be preferred.

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MrHoffman wrote:

John Galt wrote:

The Raspberry Pi print server solution Jan Hedlund alluded to in his reply to the OP is one I recommend for those motivated beyond mere economic concerns to keeping a particular printer in service.

HP's more recent products are unmitigated junk that should be sent directly to landfills upon production. The 1000 series was one of HP's last good ones. If I were you I'd invest in that workaround.

The problem with building your own print server for a printer puts you pretty quickly up into the same range — the aggregate of money, time, complexity, and self-support costs — as replacing the printer with whatever AirPrint-capable Brother laser printer is on sale this week.

https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-zero-2-w/

$15

Add a USB power supply and an SD card, both of which you might already have. Time invested might be a half hour or so. I do not consider it complex. It is however a workaround, and not worth it if the printer is not one worth keeping. That's for the op to decide.

Earlier reports indicate that an HP LaserJet 1022 driver from an HP 5.1.1 Printer Software Update - Apple Support package can be used with an HP LaserJet 1020 printer as well, thus making the latter model work with Mac. However, the download in question is Not compatible with macOS v12 and newer. The problem seems to be that the installation is prevented under newer macOS versions, while the underlying driver as such appears to be OK. There have been some package modifications suggested, but the success rate is unclear.

If nothing else helps, you may want to investigate whether a small and relatively inexpensive Linux-based Raspberry Pi print server and CUPS could make a USB-connected HP LaserJet 1020 act as if it were an AirPrint printer, in order to allow network printing from a modern Mac or iPhone/iPad (an AirPrint printer can be used without additional drivers/software). Look upon this as an experiment. See, for example, the posts by Techguyuk in Can’t print with iPadOS17 - Apple Community.

This is a user community. You will need to check the HP website or contact them about drivers for an old printer.

Do not buy a new HP printer.

The Raspberry Pi print server solution Jan Hedlund alluded to in his reply to the OP is one I recommend for those motivated beyond mere economic concerns to keeping a particular printer in service.

HP's more recent products are unmitigated junk that should be sent directly to landfills upon production. The 1000 series was one of HP's last good ones. If I were you I'd invest in that workaround.

hp laserjet 1020 printer old version Mac OS 26 Tahoe not working please suggest valid drivers

It’s very frustrating that my perfectly good HP1020 printer can’t connect to my mini Mac. Any updates on this?

Agreed. It’s not economic, it drives me nuts to out a perfectly good printer into a landfill just to appease HP. They should be ashamed.