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by clintonfrombirmingham,Jan 21, 2013 11:07 PM in response to Ambrose McNibble
clintonfrombirmingham
Jan 21, 2013 11:07 PM
in response to Ambrose McNibble
Level 7 (30,009 points)
Mac OS XI think that you can safely update - I'm sure that the update just provides better support for existing printers and/or adds new printers for the drivers. It's the only way I know of to get rid of the 'upate' and I'm sure that your printer will continue to function as it does now.
Good luck,
Clinton
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Jan 21, 2013 11:12 PM in response to clintonfrombirminghamby Ambrose McNibble,Clinton
Nope, not gonna happen.
That is NOT a good reason.
I'm still sorting things out from the 10.8.2 upgrade. I'm not making any changes that aren't necessary.
A.M.
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Jan 22, 2013 4:58 PM in response to Ambrose McNibbleby baltwo,★HelpfulMost drivers aren't updated. Check /Library/Printers/hp/. Do note that 2.13 refers to the update and has no relationship to the printer driver versions.
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Jan 22, 2013 10:29 PM in response to baltwoby Ambrose McNibble,baltwo
You reinforce, if not confirm what I suspected about the version numbers, and that helps. But where would a normal customer person find this out?
None of the pages or screens associated with this 'update' talk about version numbers, much less make it clear that the update has a seperate version number from the software it's going to install. Every other software company I can think of says "Update to version X.Y.Z with the version X.Y.Z updater".
Unless there's some funny business going on, clearly the driver version 5.0 doesn't uptade the driver version 5.0...
But that doesn't answer my original question:
How do I get rid of this update notification?
And it brings up the question of why this 'update' notification is being pushed at me in the first place?
The other 'leading software company' gives me the option of refusing an update and tell it to go away and never come back. Is Apple now putting us on a tread-mill where we all have to do the same stuff even if we don't need it, aren't given enough information to evaluate what they're pushing, and not given the option to refuse?
A.M.
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Jan 22, 2013 10:47 PM in response to Ambrose McNibbleby baltwo,I've disabled notification center and turned off automatic software updates, so I can't help.
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Jan 23, 2013 2:18 PM in response to Ambrose McNibbleby GarlandM,Hi Ambrose,
Which model printer are you working with?
It's very possible that an update was pushed out by HP, and thus you could manually install the driver package.
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Jan 23, 2013 2:29 PM in response to GarlandMby baltwo,OP states: I have a HP P1606dn laser printer.
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Jan 23, 2013 4:26 PM in response to GarlandMby Ambrose McNibble,GarlandM
You also skipped my question - the whole point of the post:
How do I get rid of this update notification?
A.M.
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Jan 23, 2013 4:30 PM in response to Ambrose McNibbleby GarlandM,Hi Ambrose,
If it's coming up via the usual Software Update, you can take a look at this article on how to "ignore" the update: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2357