HP LaserJet Pro P1102 Printer drivers

HP LaserJet Pro P1102 drivers provide everything you need to use the HP LaserJet Pro P1102 printer with your Windows-based PC. And the fact that this package exists will probably come as a huge relief to a lot of P1102 owners who haven't been able to get their printers to work.

The main reason why this program is needed relates to how Windows communicates with other devices. The vast majority of devices that people plug into a computer will fall into one of two categories. The devices might be plug-and-play compatible. Your PC should always be able to figure out how to communicate with and use a plug-and-play device all on its own. You can quite literally just plug the device into your computer and proceed to play around with it without needing to install additional software.

Some devices, like smartphones, can also handle elements of installation and configuration. This is thanks to the fact that the devices are essentially little computers that can handle the more complex installation and configuration procedures. Your PC can essentially talk with, rather than just to, a smartphone to negotiate how they'll exchange data.

But printers are a bit different. It's true that printers will often have some computing power built into them. But it's a fairly low-powered system that isn't capable of the more complex negotiations demonstrated by something on the level of a smartphone. At the same time, the complexity of a computer makes it harder to automatically configure than something like a keyboard or mouse. Windows can almost always figure out what to do with a new USB keyboard. And it can simply ask a smartphone for protocol information. But a printer is essentially like a book written in a foreign language. Your computer doesn't understand how to make sense of it. And the printer itself doesn't have the processing capability to inform your computer. This is where drivers come in.

Drivers are essentially a lexicon that teaches your computer how to speak with specific devices. In this case, the HP LaserJet Pro P1102 drivers tell your PC how to talk to and understand an HP LaserJet Pro P1102 printer. Once the drivers are installed you simply need to plug the printer into your computer and it'll know exactly what to do with it. Drivers essentially make complex unknown devices act as user-friendly as a standard plug-and-play device.

The HP LaserJet Pro P1102 drivers are also extremely user-friendly. You don't even have to know about the underlying details of your computer. 32-bit and 64-bit drivers are typically incompatible with each other. But the HP LaserJet Pro P1102 drivers package contains both 32-bit and 64-bit builds and will automatically pick the appropriate version for you. Likewise, the driver installer will check which version of Windows you're using and ensure the appropriate options are chosen.

There aren't a lot of downsides to the HP LaserJet Pro P1102 drivers package. But it is important to keep in mind that these drivers only work on Windows-based computers. You can't use them with OSX, Linux, BSD, Android, or any other operating system. On top of this, the drivers are also only applicable to the HP LaserJet Pro P1102 printer. You can't use these drivers with any other printer, even if the device is also from HP.

Pros

• Supports both 32-bit and 64-bit CPUs
• Works on most versions of Windows
• Extremely user friendly

Cons

• Doesn't work on operating systems other than Windows
• Only supports the HP LaserJet Pro P1102 printer