HP PSC 1300 all in one printer.

I too have a HP psc 1300 series AIO printer. Based on Apples Snow Leopard Mac OS 10.6 support site our printer may not be supported in SL.

I can not immediately answer or help as SL will not arrive until 9/1/09.

If you have not yet, check out this info at http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3669. Seems like our $upgrade$ might become more costly, or stay with Leopard 10.5.8 for awhile.

For more info on SL see: http://www.apple.com/support/snowleopard/

Message was edited by: Tom Jenkins

Tom_Jenkins wrote:
I too have a HP psc 1300 series AIO printer. Based on Apples Snow Leopard Mac OS 10.6 support site our printer may not be supported in SL.

So far as I can see, support for my PSC1350 went from 'limited' in Leopard to 'zero' in Snow Leopard. HP has abandoned the PSC devices. They're paperweights.

And the situation isn't any better over in Windows: support in Vista is 'limited', and support in Windows 7 appears to be either 'even more limited' or 'nonexistent'.

It's time to buy a new printer.

I can not immediately answer or help as SL will not arrive until 9/1/09.

I installed SL last night. One of the first things I tried was to test my old HP Deskjet 930 and PSC1350. Both failed to work.

Apple has a list of the printer drivers which ship with SL here <http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3669>. You will note that the DJ930 is supported only by Gutenprint (and even that failed here) while there is no support for PSC devices lower than 1500 except with Gutenprint, and only with a few of them. PSC1200, 1300, and 1400 devices are not supported at all.

If you have not yet, check out this info at http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3669. Seems like our $upgrade$ might become more costly, or stay with Leopard 10.5.8 for awhile.

I got a Brother MFC-440CN to replace the PSC1350 a long time back. It works fine. Cost me $80, on sale because Brother had just released newer models, so you may not be able to get that precise model anymore. I'm confident that any Brother you get will work, though.

For more info on SL see: http://www.apple.com/support/snowleopard/

Message was edited by: Tom Jenkins

The print drivers for the PSC 1300 series will be made available through an Apple Software Update at some point in the future. And while it may not be today, I think you'll find that by the end of the year the support for your PSC 1350 is actually greater in Snow Leopard then Leopard.

SCANning the horizon, I wonder what I am talking about.

Just trying to help.

Andrew

I used to use HP printers exclusively. After being screwed over a few times (PSC1350 vs Leopard, PSC1350 vs Vista, DJ930 vs Leopard, DJ930 vs XP SP3, DJ930 vs Vista) I walked away. HP devices were removed from my list of devices to be considered. If the PSC1350 lives again, I may revise my position.

Charles,

Thanks for your info and trials. I have now convinced myself to partition my HD and install Snow Leopard on one and Leopard on the other. I have the same set up on an iMac Summer 2000 ( 400 Hz ) that has Tiger on one and 9.2 on the other, both HP 1350 compatible.

Let you know in a few days how this works out. Should be less expensive than a new printer, and with Andrews post, it looks like there still is light for the 1350. 🙂

Tom

Andrew,

Thanks, Thanks, Thanks for the FYI post(s). I also have been a Mac HP printer follower and in about 1990, was selected to field test "post script printing" on a HP dot matrix printer for the Mac. I do not think it ever went public as it had to be the slowest printing in the world.

Tom

I was having the same issue. The printer queue would say it was printing, but nothing would happen. I went to HP's website, and downloaded the basic driver listed as 2006 release date (approx. 110MB). Installed, and not only am I now able to print, contrary to HP's Snow Leopard support note, I was able to scan using HP Scan Pro.

I'll just say if you have HP Scan Pro working, consider yourself very lucky. It won't run at all for most of the devices it supports. Don't mess with anything because once it breaks you probably won't get it back. On the flip side congratulations for getting it working.

Just trying to help.

Andrew

Hi! I had the same problem after installing SL...now I have uninstalled the old software and reinstalled using HP Installer_PSC1300v9.7.dmg available on HP site and voilà! Everything seems to work fine...

Giuseppe