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
> 
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> 
> 

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