On Jul 20, 2004, at 9:44 AM, Nora J. Probasco wrote: > > I am looking for any suggestions to solve my problem. I have always > had good luck with HP printers and I knew the old Apple Laser was made > by HP. So naively I bought an HP Office Jet d135 All-In-One and a 1200 > HP Laser printer. Once I hooked them up, I found they couldn?t work > together. I went through the routine of downloading new drivers to see > if that helped which it didn?t. Finally, HP came up with a workaround, > though a little inconvenient, that let them both work on my computer. > So later I bought a Photosmart 7350 for printing photos figuring that > if I couldn?t use it with my desktop, I could use it with my laptop. > However, I would really like to print from it from my desktop.
The Gimp-Print printer drivers are available for dozens of HP printers and work well with the CUPS printing software of X. Check to see whether you can switch at least one of the printers over to Gimp-Print. <http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/MacOSX.php3> > When I bought Mac OSX Panther, it was suggested that this would solve > my problem using the Printer Setup Utility. Well, it didn?t. Is there > anything else I could do to make all 3 printers work on my desktop > short of buying a $300-400 HP Jet Direct? Don't pay that much for a Jet Direct; they're available for under $200, if you look around. There are many third-party pocket print spoolers that work with HP printers for much less money and they even have more features. The last one I got was made by D-Link and I don't think I paid much more than $60 for it. I bought it when I sold my old HP laser printer to my brother and he wanted to stick it on his network. > I have learned one very valuable lesson. Do not buy printers of the > same brand if you plan to mix them, or could that be a problem too? > ;-) I have had two Epson printers on USB with no problem. Ever since X came out, HP's drivers for scanners and printers have basically sucked. I switched over to VueScan on my scanner because the HP software was using 75% of the CPU cycles in the background, even when the scanner was not in use. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be July 27. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
