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sell it and get a epson, its a better product anyway ...
Well my psc 2510 prints wirelessly using the Vista supplied drivers. But it won't scan or read memory cards. Apparently those only work if you plug the printer into a USB port (haven't tried it), which kind of defeats the whole point of getting a wireless printer to start with. For now I have to scan from my XP laptop then copy the files to my Vista machine. I don't use those features enough for this to be a major issue, but it would be nice to have working drivers.
I've been through enough Windows launches that I didn't expect a lot of driver support. But Vista really seems to be the worst so far. Half my hardware devices are using limited generic drivers and the other half are using beta drivers.
Top feed mechanism+fixed print head=Junk
best quality photo pictures with PIM+better ink system=my R2400 and r220 for the win
quality? top loader? I dont care when the prints come out like they do. When the heads die, replace the printer there dirt cheap anyway... HP heads get replaced with each ink change, but the printer itself has plenty of other things that are gonna break resulting in a replacement. All home printer are junk that you should expect to replace every year if its used alot.
Found this link on their site when I was confirming the LaserJet compatibility:
HP LaserJet and Color LaserJet Products - Product Support Matrix for Microsoft Windows Vista
That'll let you know if your printer is supported or not.
There is NOT one PhotoSmart model on there list, why is that I wonder?
A lot of those modles are not that old.
ran into the same BS with my scanjet 220C. in vista x32, the xp drivers work.
no xp 64 drivers for my scanner that i can use with vista x64, real piss off. look on planet x64, some people have gotten the xp 64 and xp 32 drivers to work on vista rtm.
you have to love HP, i guess they want us to NEVER buy another HP product... stupid @#@$% backwards company. next scanner I am going cannon, no support problems there.
Printer wise, waiting for x64 drivers for my hp 1020, running it off a 2nd pentium 3 comp over the network via generic hp drivers off my vista box.
XP drivers shouldn't work. The driver model is different.
Who knows? I just hope for their sake that they get some drivers created for their Photosmart series quickly. Hopefully this is a situation where they didn't get the drivers ready in time for Microsoft to include them in the Vista release. All we can hope for is that there will be downloadable versions of those drivers soon.
OK, I've been running Vista Ultimate since RTM, and for the most part everything works except for my printer. HP said that they would have Vista drivers come Vista launch. They had every indication that this was happening and so I waited for the Retail release. So, its launched, I saunter over to HP's website, where, I do a search for an HP Photosmart P1100 printer. Lo and behold, what do I read?
Dammit, these guys are too lazy to write a new driver for their product? So fine, I said, I need a driver for my HP Scanjet USB scanner I have. Same @#%$#% message! Yea, I got kicked in the balls by HP not once, but twice.
Point to this rant? Just and FYI to all those thinking about upgrading. Check your hardware out before the upgrade. Let us mascocists go first.
-E
Link to the HP Message.
maybe its a ploy to get you to buy a new printer...
lol, first we need dual cores, and more ram, and now new printers lol..
all that aside, I love vista so far, its what XP should have been from day one.
Amen to that. My parents' LaserJet 4P still runs, although they just replaced it with a new, network-connected Samsung. We'll see how it goes. Postscript is also a must--I hate it when printing something hangs up my computer while it does all the processing.Dan_D made a reference to postscript. I suggest everyone looking into a new printer buy one with postscript capabilities. It will cost more, but moves the technology from being something directly derived from your OS into its own language. Your printer then will process a standard print file.
The HP4 from 1992 is still an office workhorse. For the general user of this forum I would suggest going to a local used office supply company and looking for a working model with under 250,000 impressions (prints). It should cost less than $200. Plug it into your network and not concern yourselves with driver compatabilities.
Not mabye, definitely. I work with another brand of printers/copiers/line production priters and will say that from my standpoint that any device you people grouped as consumers buy that costs less than 3 ink/toner refills is considered disposable.
My company recieves dell personal printers for free. When they break, or do not print correctly, they are disposed of and another free dell printer replaces that.
Dan_D made a reference to postscript. I suggest everyone looking into a new printer buy one with postscript capabilities. It will cost more, but moves the technology from being something directly derived from your OS into its own language. Your printer then will process a standard print file.
The HP4 from 1992 is still an office workhorse. For the general user of this forum I would suggest going to a local used office supply company and looking for a working model with under 250,000 impressions (prints). It should cost less than $200. Plug it into your network and not concern yourselves with driver compatabilities.
I've got an ancient 5si mx here at my shop - thats a workhorse HP. The page count on this one is well over 600,000 now. If you figure costs....
1200 reams of paper (figure the really cheap stuff at $5 a ream for fun) - $6000.00
Toner (figured at 15,000 pages and $150 each) - $6000.00
Maint (fuser) kits (figured at 100,000 pages and $250 each) $1500.00
$13,500 in supplies plus the cost of the printer in this ones life. I don't remember what these old 5si (and 8000) series originally sold for but figuring at a grand for fun that still leaves my total cost per page under 3 cents. I do also like my Epson Photo 320 though. Epson shows no drivers for Vista - get XP drivers, right click choose XP SP2 compatibility and install the drivers. Works just fine.
They sold for between $2500-$3000 originally if I remember correctly. Granted the $3000 model came with duplexer, stand, additional paper trays and so on.
Thats the one I've got. It's about four feet tall. Does 2 sided, and the very bottom tray (which is the stand) holds and entire case of paper, not just a ream. It also has memory upgrades, jet direct, and a post script card of some sort.
This is old hat for HP. Every time a new Windows comes out, they pretend there will be no drivers for various printers, then a few months down the road, driver will "mysteriously" appear on their website, or they'll try and charge for them.
That being said, Vista has built-in support for what appear to be hundreds of HP printers across a variety of lines (DeskJets, OfficeJets, LaserJets, PhotoSmart, etc.) Just not every single make and model is listed.
What photosmart printers are supported in Vista? I've been unable to get a clear answer to this one. I know I only paid $300 for this printer a little over 2 years ago, but damn it, I won't solicit any manufacturer that screws its customers out of support for its own products.
-E
Well I just had a long chat with some people from HP and it seems that they are working on a whole fist full of printer drivers. But they said it is going to take them about 2 or 3 months for all the drivers in Vista 32 and 64. Yes even my old 1700 ps d drivers. So I guess we will wait and see like everyone else. Vista U 64. It's here time time time will tell.
I'd relax. HP will most liklely come out with drivers for their currently unsupported printers. HP has done this in the past. It was this way when XP came out and if that was any indication how this will play out, then I'd sleep easy knowing that it will get done.