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10.3: Installl an HP PSC750 printer in Classic
A mere $25? Having spent hours on the support phone line, I paid 40€ to get the "latest" drivers posted to me on a CD. Stupid me... needless to say, the moss was already growing on those drivers when the CD went to the press. I've given up on HP offering any OS X support for this pile of glass and coloured plastic. Their drivers seem to be lagging half a year after Apple's OS releases and were slow and buggy as hell last time I checked. The drivers ate all spare CPU cycles even when the printer wasn't connected, which is kind of irritating on an iBook. It took literally hours to print a dozen pages (tried it... twice... yes, I'm stupid) and the scanning software couldn't find the scanner half of the time, and even then it couldn't handle files larger than 4 MB. *sob* The good thing -- and I'm soon getting to the point here -- the good thing is that Panther supports the PSC 750 print engine natively, using the built-in DeskJet 900 drivers. You lose the scanning capabilities, but the PSC 750 scanner is so lousy that I don't really care anyway. To h4X0r Panther into doing this, open Print Center and option-click the Add button in the toolbar of the Printer list window. Then select "advanced" from the dropdown menu. Now pick USB Printer from the Device dropdown, set the Device Name to whatever you want, and pick "HP DeskJet 900 Series, CUPS+Gimp-Print v4.2.5" as the printer model. Set the Device URI to usb://Hewlett-Packard/PSC%20750?serial=XXXXXXXXXXXX, where the XXXX string is the 12-digit serial number of the printer, all upper case. It's probably printed somewhere on the printer but I'm too lazy to check now. Or you can probably copy the URI from the HP-driver-encumbered printer instance. You may need to reboot. Bliss! You now have a working (but still slow) color bubblejet printer. --Martin
10.3: Installl an HP PSC750 printer in Classic
Sorry to hear that HP has gotten to you as well. It is a sad reflection that companies can advertise compatibilities on the outside of a product and then not be responsible delivering them.
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