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I have decided to buy a HP 7260 printer. First, I was surprised that the
driver installation is _only_ 50 MB ! Well, here we go. The installation
under normally running WinXP SP1 was without any glitch, but, allas, 6 or 7
new processes have started afterwards. During the installation there's no
possibility to choose any components. My test page prints OK. Should I be
Happy? Let's see. To be more certain about this I decided to print the test
page with my older Epson. Both printers are USB. I swapped them, the Epson
was found, so I selected it to be used. Here we go again. I get a HP printer
moniring screen waiting for a PHOTOSMART printer. After 1 minute or so I had
to cancel printing, because nothing was happening. One more check. I have an
Adobe's Acrobat with its own virtual pdf printer, so we can check once more.
The result is the same: we are waiting for a PhotoSmart to be connected!
Here my expertise ends. I have no idea what a virtual pdf printer could have
in common with HP status monitor. The HP was uninstalled with following
obligatory restart. Then everything came to normal.
Definately, HP installs some processes in system level which take over ALL
printing.
I am still wondering if it's stupid me, or smart HP... ;-)
I have decided to buy a HP 7260 printer. First, I was surprised that the
driver installation is _only_ 50 MB ! Well, here we go. The installation
under normally running WinXP SP1 was without any glitch, but, allas, 6 or 7
new processes have started afterwards. During the installation there's no
possibility to choose any components. My test page prints OK. Should I be
Happy? Let's see. To be more certain about this I decided to print the test
page with my older Epson. Both printers are USB. I swapped them, the Epson
was found, so I selected it to be used. Here we go again. I get a HP printer
moniring screen waiting for a PHOTOSMART printer. After 1 minute or so I had
to cancel printing, because nothing was happening. One more check. I have an
Adobe's Acrobat with its own virtual pdf printer, so we can check once more.
The result is the same: we are waiting for a PhotoSmart to be connected!
Here my expertise ends. I have no idea what a virtual pdf printer could have
in common with HP status monitor. The HP was uninstalled with following
obligatory restart. Then everything came to normal.
Definately, HP installs some processes in system level which take over ALL
printing.
I am still wondering if it's stupid me, or smart HP... ;-)
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