While you could manually search for the printer driver if the automatic search fails, you’ll quickly realize the printer driver for your older HP printer is nowhere to be found.įortunately, that doesn’t necessarily mean you’re out of luck and need to replace your HP printer! You’ll realize this when you try to add an older HP printer and macOS is unable to automatically find an appropriate printer driver for your older HP printer. If you use older HP printers with macOS, you probably know by now that Apple doesn’t retain older HP printer drivers in newer versions of macOS and they may not be available for download through Apple Software Update either.