HP is well and truly off my Christmas card list.
After 15 years+ sterling service, 10 of those with us, our HP Laserjet 4050N (or Bessie as she is known in the office) is still proudly whirring away.
But it seems her maker has deemed her fit for enforced retirement by withdrawing all driver support and actual drivers. They seemed to disappear about a month ago. So our shiny new Windows 8.1 machines can no longer connect to Bessie, other than 1 which was configured before the driver was retired.
Also I can no longer use her for printing any online documents which is sneaky. If I save them as a PDF or local file then I can print, but if it's a PDF on a suppliers website or online document, I can no longer print 
Bessie has actually outlived her original replacement, a HP Laserjet 1606 which is now in the bin, and we've just bought a Lexmark Colour Laser as a general printer. So it's just me and Bessie and a bit of local b&w printing. But she seems quite happy, still got a spare toner, so reckon I'll get another few years if its just me printing!
HP seemed to have canned their original all in one driver for older printers, so any clever peeps got any driver ideas for a 4050N? Every lead from Google ends up as a 404 or a generic HP search. Or am I destined to only print locally.
Didn't even realise they could dictate the driver you use for online forms? Assumed a driver was simply a driver, or maybe we have a corrupted driver?
) printer for the new boxes, so it's not really an issue for anyone else.
