![]() ![]() The merger of the two companies destroyed what, if any, support environment they had left. Another company that had a niche market and excelled (servers) and attempted to penetrate the desktop and laptop markets. Then they went plastic and attempted to compete with lowend vendors like Brother and their days became numbered.ģ yrs ago, HP merged or bought Compaq. Anyone remember the HP Laserjet II or III? Even the HP IV and V were good machine. This pertains to any HP Scanner, HP Printer… all the parts that made HP what used to be a good strong vendor with solid parts. Its been going into the toilet ever since. 8 years ago, HP decided to use JAVA based installers and attempted to simplify their software while at the same time, adding more junk, ads, sells tools etc. The things I could say about HP… Hate is not strong enough. I've been a mad crazy, frustrated person for the last week □ Oh ya, why another refill for my old desjet? I had to reinstall XP on top of XP to get the stupid driver working. I should of checked the ink guy first to find the deals, it would of saved me alot of grief. In the end, I brought back the new printer, went to my local ink guy, and between the laserjet refill, and a new colour refill for my old deskjet, it's gonna save me money. Thanks for nothing, except, sorries, and cut/pasting the same install steps I went through a thousand times to install the damn driver. ![]() like "We're sorry, we'll send you a new driver, or here's a $20.00 USB cable on us, just for trying HP!". Tech is a joke, and complaining didn't get me any further. Nice! My $50.00 printer just cost me $100! what!? they can't find the time to hook you up with an easy reg file to double click on! I ended up buying another HP deskjet 'cause stupid me, I thought it would be cheaper! Boy I was wrong… can we say "Where the hell is the USB cable?!" Oh and hey there's no B&W ink cartridge. ya right! I went through all the steps a thousand times, and even messed with my registry like they tell you too! Gawd, that's another thing, all those trouble shooting steps. After my trusty HP laserjet was telling me "Fill me up", and finding out a new cartridge was gonna cost me $90.00 CAD, I tried for the life of me to hook up another HP printer I had. For the last week I've been focused on a crappy HP driver. You can produce good print-outs just make the software that goes with it to live up to that standard. You also need to test your software more before it’s released. HP, seriously: you have to either get proper software developers on board or at least educate the existing ones. I sincerely wonder how much time has been wasted for so many people through software which has sucked harder than most software ever released (with the possible exception of Netscape 4 and RealPlayer…). If he questions that statement, I will just “crash” down into a pile of useless matter… ![]() When he wants me to leave, I will simply state that I have no idea what a door is, and, even less, how to walk. I would like to go by his house, knock down the door and crap on his kitchen table. Take the HP Setup Assistant, for example. Most of the time, the printers are good products that deliver quality prints, no doubt about that, but what brings the impression and experience way down is faulty and buggy printer drivers that would make Dalai Lama go insane. And the biggest culprit of them all are HP.įrom what I remember, I don’t think I’ve been exposed to a HP printer during the last 10 years that didn’t have a problem of some kind. I hate HP and their drivers Published on Wednesday, May 2, 2007įor all the years I’ve been a computer user, there is something that has always plagued me: printers and their drivers. ![]()
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