I have an older HP 1200 series printer, the PSC 1210 All In One.
I just recently built a new system with Windows 7 x64 and the printer is useless.
While it can still scan and (barely) print, fast draft misaligns consecutive lines, best quality prints a double image and legal sized printing cuts off after A4 length.
And that's just what I've found in the first week.
There was talk about installing a different model HP driver to get it to work, but doing so gives me no functionality.
Two things of interest my research turned up. One was that the x64 drivers seem to have been buggy since Vista, and HP isn't bothering with fixing them. The second one was a report of someone whose problems went away when he installed Windows 8.
While I'm not going to go to Win8, my question is if you can install Win8 drivers on Win7, and if anyone knows how to GET those drivers without installing Win8.
Honestly, switching to a 64-bit OS has been harrowing with how many programs fail to work properly. You'd think they just came up with the idea and not that it's been around more than 10 years.
I just recently built a new system with Windows 7 x64 and the printer is useless.
While it can still scan and (barely) print, fast draft misaligns consecutive lines, best quality prints a double image and legal sized printing cuts off after A4 length.
And that's just what I've found in the first week.
There was talk about installing a different model HP driver to get it to work, but doing so gives me no functionality.
Two things of interest my research turned up. One was that the x64 drivers seem to have been buggy since Vista, and HP isn't bothering with fixing them. The second one was a report of someone whose problems went away when he installed Windows 8.
While I'm not going to go to Win8, my question is if you can install Win8 drivers on Win7, and if anyone knows how to GET those drivers without installing Win8.
Honestly, switching to a 64-bit OS has been harrowing with how many programs fail to work properly. You'd think they just came up with the idea and not that it's been around more than 10 years.