There is not much going on in the brains of these old printers.  Generally,
manufacturer drivers are valuable for the special effects their devices may
support.  These old drivers typically supported printer fonts, which are no
longer any value in a truetype soft font world.  The best way to get drivers
for these is to use an updated version of windows.  Win98 will have drivers
built-in, as will all later versions from MS.  The PCL laser is on Win95 and
NT, if the 540 isn't on win95 use any of the supported 500 series printer
drivers.
Tom Turak

-----Original Message-----
From: Brendon Schafer [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 3:41 AM


www.driverguide.com
www.windrivers.com

First one is my preferred listing. The second isn't very comprehensive
(IMO).

You may be annoyed with having to sign up for something just to get a driver
though.

I'm surprised by HP's response though. Most vendors have on their website
all the drivers
for all their products from way back.

<snip>
> Hello, I am a Vista in Detroit, we help non-profits with
> their technology
> needs. one of out clients have two old HP printers:
> 1 "HP LaserJet PCL Language" printer
> 2.HP DeskJet 540
>  they have told me they need the software for these printers,
> but when they
> called Hewlett Packard, they said that the printers were so
> old they no
> longer carried that software. Would anyone know where I can
> find a source to
> get copies of software for these printers? thanks.

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