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None of our HP printers work woth 10.6

We're very disappointed with the way 10.6 has worked out in our office. We have an HP Laserjet connected to our Airport Extreme router, and none of our three office computers can find it on the network. We also have an HP Deskjet 4180 printer/scanner connected to our main computer (a USB connection) and that won't work either because the HP printer software keeps crashing. Now we're faced with having no printers tomorrow -- very bad news indeed. How could Apple release this update without getting it right? Is it possible to somehow uninstall 10.6?

Posted on Aug 28, 2009 7:09 PM

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Oct 9, 2009 7:19 AM in response to Will Stewart

PS - with the qualification that the hpijs driver gives lower quality printing for photographs than the original HP driver (or the Gurenprint which is also less good). Perhaps the 'force 32 bit printing' is ineffectual - anyway the colour range is restricted. Otherwise fine.

Oct 9, 2009 10:19 AM in response to Will Stewart

Will,

If you are unhappy with the quality of the HPIJS drivers, and you have a Leopard DVD laying around, you can install the drivers off of that, since it included drivers for your Deskjet 9300. That being said, you will need the '32-bit' workaround for full functionality, but that has nothing to do with the print quality.

Just trying to help.

Andrew

Oct 25, 2009 4:32 AM in response to HP Mac Architect

In fact I used the HP (as opposed to Apple) drivers with Leopard - because they were better quality. HP say these will not work with 10.6.

An alternative solution for me is to have an older Leopard machine set up on the network - printing to the printer (which is on an Airport Express unit) from this is fine, and I have the ARD master software on my machine. Clumsy but OK for occasional use!

Nov 16, 2009 3:37 PM in response to HP Mac Architect

Well - what do you know?! Software update has just updated the HP printer drivers and the Gutenprint version STILL does not print A3!!!

hpijs drivers seem OK still

Nov 16, 2009 4:03 PM in response to Will Stewart

The Gutenprint drivers Apple ships are completely separate from the HP drivers Apple ships. The official HP drivers were just updated, but the Gutenprint drivers have not been updated since Snow Leopard shipped.

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Nov 16, 2009 4:08 PM in response to Ed Mcknew

Apple just released a new set of HP printer drivers today: Canon Printer Drivers for Mac OS X v10.6. It fixed the problem I had with my HP Laserjet 1300 that the 10.6.2 update broke.

OT

None of our HP printers work woth 10.6