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16 years ago
[EDIT: Thanks everyone, this has been fairly surreal. ^^; Most of your suggestions were for ways to keep running the existing printer, which is well and good, but I don't have the room or the inclination to deal with another computer, so I went and got an Epson Stylus NX515, which so far has been aces. It's a printer-scanner, but still small enough to fit in the space available.]
"We are sorry to inform you that there will be no Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) support available for your HP product. Therefore your product will not work with Mac OS X 10.6.
"If you are using the Mac OS X 10.6 operating system on your computer, please consider upgrading to a newer HP product that is supported on Mac OS X 10.6. The majority of HP peripherals on the market are supported with Mac OS X 10.6."
Yes, yes, splendid idea. I will buy another product from you when you have just forced obsolescence on my perfectly functional product that I already bought from you. I love being forced to hand you more money.
No, wait. Sorry-- I hate that. I think I will buy from your competitors. Burn in hell, jerks.
So! Can anyone recommend a good color printer that is not made by Hewlett-Packard? I'd like it to be under $300 and have a fairly small footprint like my old Deskjet 932c, which I would like to point out still works, but has been rendered useless.
"We are sorry to inform you that there will be no Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) support available for your HP product. Therefore your product will not work with Mac OS X 10.6.
"If you are using the Mac OS X 10.6 operating system on your computer, please consider upgrading to a newer HP product that is supported on Mac OS X 10.6. The majority of HP peripherals on the market are supported with Mac OS X 10.6."
Yes, yes, splendid idea. I will buy another product from you when you have just forced obsolescence on my perfectly functional product that I already bought from you. I love being forced to hand you more money.
No, wait. Sorry-- I hate that. I think I will buy from your competitors. Burn in hell, jerks.
So! Can anyone recommend a good color printer that is not made by Hewlett-Packard? I'd like it to be under $300 and have a fairly small footprint like my old Deskjet 932c, which I would like to point out still works, but has been rendered useless.
A "netbook" requires an unlicensed and hacked copy of the Mac OS, which is frowned upon by Apple. Ignoring all of that, most of the laptops that have been able to run OSX require an external optical drive and are generally not all that impressive as laptops if used for more than just printing.
Thanks for the heads-up!
Is this for high-end graphic printing? I know several people who have had great results at low expense by signing up fro a digital printmaking course at a community college, and printing off of the high end machines there for basicaly just the cost of paper and a little ink...
Hmm.
HP is finally down to 15 for their 50$ printer:/
HP doesn't have a driver for MAC X.6.3 and he doesn't have the hardware to support Jaguar.
However, if the choice is to stick with unsupported hardware, then a 4gig to 20gig flash drive for the purpose of using a supported hardware os is the cheapest route, the second cheapest is to get a new desk:/
A flash card big enough to hold and maintain Linux for mac(minimum 4 gig, no max)
Under 250(+sh&taxes)
Lexmark E260D
or for the same price
Lexmark P705AIO(all in one)
I'm still using OS X 10.4.11 (Tiger) and I'd have to do so much to upgrade even to Snow Leopard that it's pointless to do so.
It's a good question you've asked, but I've never looked into this printer question.
That leaves you dual booting to ubuntu for the hardware access:/
In fact they should probably come with WinXP, which will most definitely run it, in case of a Linux-based netbook, chances are pretty high it will be able to run it as well.
Those are often used in pre-press operations, like press checks. I have an older Epson Stylus Photo 2200 that I shelled out $800 for. You can easy get the equivalent today for $300. I bought that printer in late 2003 and Epson continues to make drivers for it, including one for OSX 10.6., as well as on for Windows 7. Their customer service isn't too shabby, either.
The Epson 2200 prints like a dream and uses separate cartridges ($11 each). It's slow though. The 1280 is a real workhorse, but uses a unibody cartridge. It once ran for $300. You can get one on ebay for peanuts.