For macintosh, For macintosh -3 – HP Deskjet 9300 Printer series User Manual

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Hardware-first installation

If you have connected a USB cable to the ports on the computer and the printer before
installing the printer software, the Found New Hardware wizard appears on the computer
screen.

If you have connected a parallel cable and restarted the system, the Found New Hardware
wizard appears on the computer screen.

1

Click

Next

in the Found New Hardware wizard.

2

Click

Search for the best driver for your device (recommended)

, and then click

Next

.

3

Insert the Starter CD into the CD-ROM drive.
If the CD menu appears, click

Exit

twice to close the CD menu.

4

Select

Specify a location

.

5

Click

Browse

to locate the root directory on the Starter CD, and then click

OK

.

6

Click

Next

and follow the onscreen instructions.

7

Click

Next

, and then click

Finish

.

For Macintosh

You can connect your printer to Apple computers that use Mac OS 8.6 or later through the
USB port. To connect older models without a USB port, you can either connect the Macintosh
to a HP Jetdirect print server (Jetdirect 300x), or contact Apple for USB solutions.

Mac OS 8.6, 9.x, and OS X Classic

1

Insert the Starter CD into your CD-ROM drive and double-click the

CD icon

on the Mac

desktop.

2

Double-click the installer icon for the Mac OS that you are using.

3

Follow the onscreen instructions to complete the installation.

4

Connect the USB cable to the printer and computer.

Follow these steps to set the printer as the computer’s default printer:

1

Select

Chooser

from the Apple menu.

2

Select

hp deskjet xx

in the upper left panel of the Chooser, where

xx

represents the

version of the current printer driver.

3

Select

9300

in the right panel of the Chooser.

4

Close the Chooser.

Before you can install the printer software on a computer running Windows XP 64-bit, you
must download the printer software from

http://www.hp.com

.

Upon completion of the hardware-first installation process, the Found New Hardware wizard
will automatically launch the setup program. This gives you the option to install non-driver
components such as the Toolbox.

Mac OS X Classic mode is a Mac OS X feature that lets applications built for Mac OS 9.x to run
on a Mac OS X computer. Mac OS X Classic applications have a Mac OS 9.x user interface.

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