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HP is certainly not what they used to be, sad

Hewlett and Packard were engineers who created a culture of doing things right, with enough business acumen to make it go.?ÿ Then the MBA types took over and split off the computer line and took the recognized name with it.?ÿ It seems the old culture has been lost in the computer company.?ÿ Agilent was the name given to the measurement products company that is the real HP legacy, but I don't know if they still have the culture.

All in one Brother?ÿ units have saved me and they come with great graphic and pdf software.

When it doesn't print over wifi, I simply reboot the router and it prints whatever is in the spool.

Not the best printer in the world, it is however probably one of the most affordable and dependable units around.

A friend in the computer business told me hp offshored their printer software and it's been a pile 'o ___ ever since.

I totally agree about HP...it is a shame. I have an HP plotter that just stopped working, the screen says "contact HP"...

A bit of trivia (if I recall correctly)...

Charlie Trimble and others were working at HP, and they developed a GPS receiver. HP decided not to pursue it, and a few engineers formed Trimble Navigation...the rest is GPS history

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The driver software for the T120 plotter is absolute and total garbage.?ÿ F'rinstance:

Printing from 22" roll.?ÿ Printer loads roll and measures width - to nearest mm - 558mm = 21.97".?ÿ ANSII C landscape drawing is 22".?ÿ Printer then autorotates print 90?ø, leaving 5" waste that has to be trimmed.?ÿ Workaround: create custom drawing 21.96" x 17" - this only works some of the time.

Printing tabloid from multisheet feeder:?ÿ want 5 copies of drawing with hatching in various shades of gray.?ÿ Specify 5 as number of copies and print with black ink.?ÿ First copy is beautiful, crisp lettering and linework, hatches look great.?ÿ Then, on subsequent copies hatching prints as some weird variants of "$hit-brindle yellow/orange/brown".?ÿ SO, wanting multiple copies, one has to send the drawing to the printer multiple times.

I thought for sure the Hp Facebook support page might help.?ÿ Sent a chat msg @ 9AM.?ÿ At 6 PM, a response popped up, "Hi, thanks for getting in touch.?ÿ How can we help?"?ÿ Typed in a somewhat detailed question, to which I have not as yet received an answer - after 2 weeks.

I will never buy another Hp product again, so help me.?ÿ

We have a Xerox large format plotter that refuses to plot a 34" wide plot on a 36" wide roll, there is no override.?ÿ The only way to do it is pick a paper size that is larger than the desired plot and make sure one dimension is 36".

And the dam thing, print, go to printer, nothing, go back to desk, oh there is yet another dialog to hit OK on.

I found the answer-just don't use hp's terrible software.

Removed the printer then reconnected it, installed the driver.?ÿ It prints.?ÿ Connected it to the router, can print with my iPhone and iPad.

hp's terrible software was unable to find the printer, lots of forum threads elsewhere essentially say, it doesn't work.

Scanning is to a usb flash drive.?ÿ It might scan to the computer without the software but I haven't tried it.?ÿ No problem scanning to a flash drive, though.

I gave up on any printing over ledger size and make a pdf and send anything larger out to a print shop about 40mi away.

You can buy HPs new Ledger size printer, scanner, copier for $140. Print cartridges are $208. What?

It undoubtedly comes with a baby cartridge that will run out soon.?ÿ Give?ÿ away the hardware, make it up on supplies. That's been the general pricing model since the earliest days of ink jet and laser printers, but those $ are more extreme than I had noticed before.