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Nice, explicit answer that will help others with that issue.
– DrMoishe Pippik
Commented Jul 18, 2023 at 18:02
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A side note that usually you don't need to match printer model: picking any printer that supports PCL5 is fine. The different models have different capabilities that the driver knows about (eg different types of paper trays) but most of them don't matter for the purposes of just getting the thing to print.
– user1908704
Commented Jul 19, 2023 at 13:58
@user1908704 Agreed. This model (and the 1200 and 1320, probably) have a single tray with an additional feeder for envelopes, as well as an optional lower paper tray. There are probably 3 or 4 printers that HP made in this configuration. 20 years of Word templates makes me err on the side of specificity.
– Parker
Commented Jul 20, 2023 at 0:26
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Microsoft still offers (Windows 10 and 11) a generic "HP Laserjet Family Driver PCL5" via Windows Update, but it will not automagically offer it. You need to tell Windows you want to manually select a driver and then wait several minutes for Windows to pull the full list of drivers from WindowsUpdate. There is also a bunch of PCL5 drivers for Laserjet 4 and 5 variants.
– Tonny
Commented Jul 20, 2023 at 22:12

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