Just as a side note, the HP support guy in Canada was fairly annoying. Physically the unit works well, but is a little loud I admit and went through my black cartridge pretty fast even though I used in saving settings such as fast draft, etc. Unfortunately, knowing what I know now, I don't think I would buy this one again unless the software was rock solid. What if I didn't have a wireless network? While wireless is great, if there was an easy solution to have all my desktops connected via ethernet, I'd prefer it (easy being not having a bunch a cables around and perhaps a pre-wired network in my home!)Īnyway, I hope everyone who has this machine gets the problem worked out. I still have the printer right next to my wireless router to interference doesn't seem to be a problem and it seems fast enough, but the fact that I can't get it working properly with a "less technically challenged" method, really bothers me. Why this would work wirelessly and not while directly connected is something no one has been able to explain. What finally did work was using the wireless connection in the printer to connect to the network. Unfortunately, I was never (and still can't) get it to work properly using this connection. While my computers will access the network wirelessly, I wanted the printer to have a solid connection. I too have gone through most of the problems described here but have finally been able to get the c7280 working properly, yet I'm still not very happy with the solution.įor connectivity reasons, I wanted to connect the aio to my network via ethernet cable directly to my router. Hopefully Apple will either work with HP to write some drivers that don't suck or will extend the time for purchasers of Apple computers to return these to the store, because they are not very compatible with OS 10.5 at the moment. Sadly, it works reasonably well with my PCs running Windows XP Pro, but it is pretty useless with my Mac right now. I can't believe I paid $300 for this piece of junk and I can't take it back because Apple only allows returns for 30 days. Check some of the other threads for the name of the file to download.įourth, and perhaps most annoying, the scanner keeps getting hung up because it thinks some other program has the scanner in use, even when the provided HP software is the only thing running. Third, the HP drivers are apparently not compatible with 10.5, so its best to not install or uninstall the drivers provided on the included CDROM and then download the newest drivers from the HP web site. The workaround for this problem is apparently to delete the identified module HPIO I think? Anyhow, drag it to the trash can and empty the trash. it crashes) with a problem with one of the HP modules. Second, when installing the software it "exits unexpectedly" (i.e. The fix for that when it happens seems to be to force it to turn off and then turn it back on. Although I could just run over it with my car a few times.Īnyhow, first the scanner seems to crash for no apparent reason with a blue-screen-of-death reminiscent of a different operating system we all know. I've seriously considered taking it back to the Apple store and asking for my money back-and if they say 'no' then lighting it on fire in the parking lot so I don't have to bring it home again. I bought this printer with my new Mac Pro (with 10.5 installed) about a month ago and don't think I could be more disgusted. This printer seems to suffer from a number of problems.
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