What brand of printers did you move to? We have a new printer (a Laserjet P3015n) that requires that we use the HP Universal Print Driver, there is no other option. While it works, it still has issues from time to time. Happily, the drivers for a 4250 works.
We did try the much cheaper brother printers. Thus far, they seem to work well. Only a few quirks (like the HL-5370DW that will switch from wired mode to wireless mode if you hold down the "go" button.). --Matt Ross Ephrata School District ----- Original Message ----- From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 07:29:33 -0700 Subject: Re: HP Universal Print Driver > On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Damien Solodow > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Anyone here using this? > > We tried, several years back. It turned out it was a pile of sh*t. > (We installed it for testing and it corrupted two other HP print > drivers on our server. And that's just for starters.) HP's tech > support was worthless when they didn't just refuse to help. This > seems to be par for any HP printer driver or printer support since > circa 2007. > > Now, since then, HP's prolly rewritten the driver completely at > least twice, so the problem we had are likely not your problems. > (Other than the overall problem of having HP print drivers.) > > We eventually ended up hacking up the PCL 5 driver that came with > Win XP into a generic printer driver, and using that with almost all > of our LaserJets. And we stopped buying HP printers. > > -- Ben > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
