And I will chip in here just because I'm sort of angry. My HP color
laserjet all in one doesn't have a driver to work with Win7 so I can
print, but not scan. And, apparently, HP has no plans to provide
one. I bought this probably 3 years ago.
Seems like there ought to be a law.....
Ernie
On Jan 26, 4:17 pm, Paul Rabinowitz <p...@pbrdesigninc.com> wrote:
... My HP color laserjet all in one doesn't have a driver to work with Win7 so I can print, but not scan. And, apparently, HP has no plans to provide one. I bought this probably 3 years ago...
Seems a pretty rude way to treat your customers Ernie. Your machine is very young. Customers have a memory. That said, I have always found HP customer focussed so that this is particularly unfortunate.
In case you have not, try the on-board MS Win7 scanning tool. It actually works with my fujitsu page scanner where the fujitsu driver does not. (It was only about 3 years old when Win7 came out, too) that does not provide anything like the full utility of the Fujitsu software but it does get pages scanned.
If I require greater utility then I step into the Virtual XP application which comes free with some versions of Win 7 (I don't know which, mine is Win7 Ultimate 64-bit) That opens like a window and allows you to fully run any applications which run in XP that I have tried. If your version has this you will want to go into control panel and load this from the Windows disk specifically. If it does not then I think it is purchasable.
The other thing to look at is one of the commercial one-size-fits-all drivers that are available. They do not fit all ( they are not planning to cater for my Fujitsu for example) but they support an awful lot of equipment.
===== An advertising aside: epson, Epson, EPSON, as noted previously, my EPSON graphic scanner must now be about a dozen years old and Epson catered for it in Win7 immediately that became available - in fact I beta tested Win7 and could use it then. Perhaps they realise that any customer who might buy it have a serious interest and need for a scanner and would regard reasonable future use as purchasing criteria.
Yep.. Windows 7... that's why when my computer died, late last year, we decided to keep XP pro with old computer. Refurbished it with a new hard drive and keyboard. Working most lovely. Didn't have to buy new memory ect. The cost of that and the tech who checked my computer out, and could not even get any data off the hard drive, came to $103.00 and change. Affordable!
I'm an old 'art now, (retired) Not doing much for the work a day whorl, so all my old programs suit me fine. Therefore why upgrade to a better CPU via Windows 7 and out-date all my older programs and equipment, didn't make any sense.
It goes well with my photographic hobby. Which is not as modern as my computer or Windows XP. Shooting state of the art, Classic Manual film Cameras, 1967 - 1972 35mm Nikon's, which seem to be so simple to operate, like a point and shoot, when I grab the old 1946 Speed Graphic large format press camera. Were still trying to determine which is in better shape, as we are the same age.
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We either pay for software maintenance and make it economically possible to live more free of someone else scheduling the obsolescence of our tools, or we are beset, as this thread so eloquently shows with someone else deciding when we throw away perfectly good equipment, and write off all the money we paid to acquire and train staff to use it. It is a choice, DataCAD understands, but unfortunately Microsoft does not. Linux is out there waiting.
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