Six months ago I've purchased a 5550 (pretty
expensive) and the drivers on Windows still have
problems with the color tones.
On MDK worked much better... despite of HP
*sponsoring*. ;-)

--- Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Friday 12 Nov 2004 13:32, Greg Meyer wrote:
> > Ever try
> > to install Windows from scratch, track down
> drivers and get them installed
> > without a network connection, then try to
> configure a wireless conection so
> > that it co-exists nicely with more than one access
> point, and then try to
> > apply the Windows updates before getting infected?
>  It's not a picnic
> > either.
> 
> It took me something like 3 hours to get my printer
> installed under windows.  
> It's an HP Deskjet, and I had the driver disk, but
> the ***** would *not* 
> install.  Eventually I worked out that it would not
> install because it was on 
> a USB hub.  Once I connected it directly to the box,
> it worked.  Now how was 
> I supposed to know that?  There were no error
> messages - it just said there 
> was no USB printer.  And they call this
> user-friendly?
> 
> The same printer installed perfectly under Mandrake,
> and serves two other 
> boxes on the LAN, just by editing one single
> printerserver line in CUPS 
> configuration.  Guess which I prefer?
> 
> Anne
> Anne
> -- 
> Registered Linux User No.293302
> Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet?
> 
> >
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Best Regards,
Mihai Sorin Dobrescu


                
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