HP Printer Hell
Fri, Mar 9 2012, 12:16AM
Can anyone tell me why HP printers (e.g. Photosmart) break themselves if you plug them in to USB before you load the 10GB HP driver?
Install programme refuses to recognise the printer even though USB makes the reassuring sound when you plug the printer in.
Any ideas how to fix this?
Can anyone tell me why HP printers (e.g. Photosmart) break themselves if you plug them in to USB before you load the HP driver?
Install programme refuses to recognise the printer even though USB makes the reassuring sound when you plug the printer in.
Any ideas how to fix this?
OK, uninstall drivers, delete printer from Printers/Devices, re-boot and re-install the vast number of gigabytes of HP software and ink-selling applications. DO NOT plug the printer in before it asks you.
Still don't understand why the order of installation determines whether it works or not. I smell something afoot with some kind of HP agenda that their printers won't auto-install using the standard Windows driver model, thus giving them more of a grip on your computer with all the tons of rubbish their install program unloads on you.
I'm so paranoid I even think they emply someone to maximise the ink usage on the test print. Multiply that print by a few tens of thousands and thats another few million on their bottom line...
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