HP LaserJet M1530 MFP Silent Install
HP, as far as I'm concerned, has some of the most insane driver and software installs ever. They are right up next to Adobe, as far as craziness, some of the time.
At work, we just attempted to install the LJ M1530 multi-fuction printer. Of course there were issues as always with new devices like this in a proper enterprise environment. There are at least 5 workstations that the device driver needed to be loaded on. Once I hear that I wondered why I wasn't scripting the install.
So I downloaded the M1530's driver. The first thing I did was use 7-zip to unzip the contents of hp_M1530_MFP_full_Solution_usb_n_w.exe. I found the usual HP mess of install files with no useful instructions for a silent install.
I dug up what looked like the main install executable under the Installer directory and ran it with the /? argument.
hpbcsiInstaller.exe /?
The following text is what I got back
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HP Installer
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usage: help displays usage information
? displays usage information
UI defines the type of UI
Valid Options:TestUI|GUI|TestIMService|Silent
uninstall Uninstalls the device driver and associated software.
ForcedUninstall Forces uninstall of the device driver and associated software.
HWFirst Indicates Hardware First install.
HWFirstPort Indicates the Post Name set up on a Hardware First install.
InstallerParamsConfigFilePath use the specified path to the InstallerParams XML config File
InstallerConfigFileName use the specified InstallerConfig XML config File Name
DriverOnly only installs the Driver and connects the device
Valid Options:True|False
NetworkLogger run installer with additional Network logging
Valid Options:NoLogging|ReleaseLogging|DebugLogging
skipAdminCheck skips the checking for administrator privileges
USB Silent: do preload of components to prepare for USB PnP
Valid Options:True|False
IPv4 Silent: find device with ipv4 address
IPv6 Silent: find device with ipv6 address
HostName Silent: find device by HostName
Mac Silent: find device by Mac address (HW Addresss)
AcceptEULA Silent: allows install to proceed
Valid Options:True|False
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OK
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Not exactly the best to go on but at least it was something. After futzing with command line options for an afternoon and part of Monday morning I finally got it to work!
Here is the full command line that I used to get an almost (There was at least one cmd box that came up briefly during the install) silent install working.
hpbcsiInstaller.exe /UI=Silent /IPv4=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx /AcceptEULA=True
If HP has documentation on this somewhere I wasn't able to find it. Hopefull this will help others out. We are getting more and more of the smaller MFP devices these days and automated installs for all the faxing and scanning software is critical when you have a large environment to deal with.
This sets everything up on my Windows 7 64-bit test workstations without a reboot.
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