I have had a few HP printers which refuse to work well unless you turn off the "Bi-Directional Printing Support."
As for HP's fall from grace: We still by HP. I would be ecstatic if HP would offer a version of their drivers with just the .inf files and _required_ DLLs. Keep the full functionality bloatware separate, please! --Matt Ross Ephrata School District ----- Original Message ----- From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 07:38:19 -0700 Subject: Re: Printer issues > n Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 10:30 AM, John Aldrich > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I’ve got a user with an HP OfficeJet 5600 series printer ... > > I have NOT tried updating the drivers yet, so that’s something to think > about. > > Definitely start there. HP's drivers suck. They seem to just > release anything that compiles, and keep updating in shotgun-debugging > mode. > > We made the mistake of buying an OJ 5610 once. We ended up throwing it > out. > > Oh how the mighty have fallen. > > -- Ben > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
