macOS Sequoia and Tahoe HP Laserjet P1102 drivers

UPDATE 2026-03-12: Added instructions for macOS Tahoe.

If you have an HP LaserJet P1102, HP LaserJet Pro P1102, HP LaserJet Pro P1102w or, if there exists one, an HP LaserJet Pro P1102w printer, and you are on an updated macOS Sequoia (> 15.0) or macOS Tahoe (> 26.0), HP official drivers won't install. As I am under no circumstance going to buy a new printer when this one works perfectly (on Windows 10/11), it turns out you can tweak the installer to bypass the operating version check, and the latest published drivers work fine.

Step-by-step guide (source):

Common steps:

• Download the official HP Mac Printer Driver
• Extract the HewlettPackardPrinterDrivers.pkg file from the HewlettPackardPrinterDrivers.dmg file.
• From a terminal, and in the folder where you extracted the .pkg file: pkgutil --expand HewlettPackardPrinterDrivers.pkg drivers.

Then, for macOS Sequoia:

• Open the drivers/Distribution file with any text editor, and change the fragment that says system.version.ProductVersion, '15.0' to system.version.ProductVersion, '16.0'. Save the changes.
• From the terminal: pkgutil --flatten drivers HewlettPackardPrinterDrivers-sequoia.pkg.
• Delete the drivers folder, and the HewlettPackardPrinterDrivers.dmg & HewlettPackardPrinterDrivers.pkg files.
• The file HewlettPackardPrinterDrivers-sequoia.pkg is, from now on, your new and ready to use installer.

Alternatively, for macOS Tahoe:

• Open the drivers/Distribution file with any text editor, and change the fragment that says system.version.ProductVersion, '15.0' to system.version.ProductVersion, '27.0'. Save the changes.
• From the terminal: pkgutil --flatten drivers HewlettPackardPrinterDrivers-tahoe.pkg.
• Delete the drivers folder, and the HewlettPackardPrinterDrivers.dmg & HewlettPackardPrinterDrivers.pkg files.
• The file HewlettPackardPrinterDrivers-tahoe.pkg is, from now on, your new and ready to use installer.

This tiny hack will probably work with other printer models and installers, and probably future operating system releases, until Apple introduces an incompatible change.