windows 8 Printer Driver in Windows 8

[bikeman25]

Hi All

Gonna be getting a newer PC after June 2nd, probably will upgrade to Windows 8 for that new machine when it's out, the machine with be an HP AMD APU System, AMD A6-3620, 8gb of ram, 1tb hard drive, Radeon 6530D graphics

Current Printer i plan on keeping, just hoping that it supports WIndows 8, Printer model is HP Deskjet F380

Thank you all

Current system specs are

AMD Athlon 64 2.20ghz-Socket 939

Gigabyte Motherboard

GT430 Video card

Diamond multimedia Sound card

DDR 4gb ram

1 160gb serial ata hard drive

secondary drive

Western Digital 500gb drive

Antec Earthwatts 500watt power supply

New machine should be a great improvement in speed and performance

[still1]

If it runs fine on windows 7 it would work fine on windows 8 with 7 drivers

[xendrome]

Ok and why create a topic for this now... why not wait until Windows 8 final, then check the mfg support site for a driver. If Windows 8 doesn't support it out of the box?

I'm confused.

[bikeman25]

Well like to be prepared, and start saving money if i had to get a newer printer, Printer works in Windows 7 64bit fine, so was just starting to prepare things slowly here and such, is why i created this topic

[Ambroos]

My printer isn't even supported in Vista/7 (32 or 64) and works just fine in Windows 8. As it's been said before, if it works fine on Windows 7 x64, it'll work fine on Windows 8 x64.

[bikeman25]

Thank you, relaxes then, and think about all set for the future Operating System

My printer isn't even supported in Vista/7 (32 or 64) and works just fine in Windows 8. As it's been said before, if it works fine on Windows 7 x64, it'll work fine on Windows 8 x64.

[PGHammer]

Well like to be prepared, and start saving money if i had to get a newer printer, Printer works in Windows 7 64bit fine, so was just starting to prepare things slowly here and such, is why i created this topic

I have an old (in fact VERY old) HP Deskjet 940C. It's so old that it predates Windows Vista.

However, every version of Windows I've used (in fact, every OS I've used except Android) has supported this printer directly - without having to go back to HP for printer drivers.

It reminds me (favorably) of the HP LaserJet printers - keep it maintained (clean and filled with consumables) and it will likely outlast your computer (it's outlasted four motherboards so far).

As long as it's not an all-in-one, I would have, and have, recommended HP's entire line of USB inkjet and laser printers - keep them clean and fed and they will likely outlast you.