Until you tried to scan.
Manually download the HP ScanJet G3010 driver for Windows 7 (64-bit). Yes, the G3010—a flatbed scanner from 2006. Same guts, different name. hp m1120 scanner driver
That’s when the dream ended. That’s when you met the driver problem . For most peripherals, drivers are boring. You plug in a new mouse, it works. You connect a webcam, Windows finds it. But the HP M1120? It suffers from a peculiar identity crisis. When you connect it via USB, the computer sees a printer immediately. "HP LaserJet M1120" lights up in the Devices list. Printing? Flawless. Until you tried to scan
Most people download the "full solution" from HP’s website—a 150MB file that installs the printer driver, the toolbox, and the update manager. But it often fails to install the scanner component on modern OSes. Why? Because Microsoft changed the kernel security model for USB imaging devices after Windows 7. Same guts, different name