Windows 10 not recognizing printer

I’m hitting a brick wall trying to get the drivers for my HP LaserJet M1212nf installed on this new rig. Does anyone have a fix for this? Thanks!

Where's it getting stuck?

Trying to pull drivers out of an .exe file.
It starts extracting, then hits me with some "cannot delete output file" error or whatever, and everything just dies mid-process.

I’ve been digging through those solutions people suggest on the HP forums... you know, the ones where they tell you to hunt down some random .exe file buried in your Temp folder—except it isn't there. Or the advice to just wipe out all the old HP files and start from scratch, which sounds great in theory, but I can't find any of them to delete in the first place.

Try uninstalling the driver first. If it isn't even installed yet, see if you can pull it down through Windows Update.

Go to Windows Settings and check for updates—make sure to look under optional updates too. If that fails, find the device in Device Manager; if it shows up as unknown, try to manually update or install the driver from there.

Otherwise, did you actually grab the 64-bit driver from the official site?

wiredotter14 said:Maybe try uninstalling the driver—or if it hasn't even been installed via Windows Update yet, just try to pull it that way.

Go check for updates in Windows Settings (make sure to include optional updates), and if that fails, head over to Device Manager to find the device; if it shows up as an unknown device, try to manually update or install the driver there.

By the way, did you actually grab the 64-bit driver from the official website?

It's the official driver and it matches the OS perfectly. None of that works. The system doesn't recognize it at any level whatsoever.

I actually pulled it off. I managed to track down some drivers on a random third-party site, and they actually worked without crashing the installation.