Ken

Not sure if this will help you or not but.... Uninstall all of the HP
drivers, disconnect the printer from the USB port. Download the Drivers from
HP. They do have a vista set of drivers, Install the drivers manual, but do
not connect the printer until requested by HP's install. Although I cannot
print multiple pages with the driver, everything else that I have used seems
to function.

"Digit0" wrote:

> Use Windows Vista Ultimate and am trying to re-install an HP Officejet 5610
> All-in-One printer, which stopped working following a recent Windows
> Automatic Update.
>
> Windows finds the printer and attempts to install driver software
> automatically, but returns the message: 'Windows found software for your
> device but encountered an error while attempting to install it. Unable to
> find a core driver package that is required by the printer device package'.
>
> I've been through the usual plugging/unplugging USB cables, installing the
> driver directly from the HP website, but the failure persists.
>
> Anyone any ideas? Is it a registry fault? Any help would be awesome.
>
> Digit
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