Microsoft to kill off third-party printer drivers in Windows
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Microsoft to kill off third-party printer drivers in Windows
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Re: Microsoft to kill off third-party printer drivers in Windows
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More discussion on the official post a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37453735
Re: Microsoft to kill off third-party printer drivers in Windows
#3I live in the Apple ecosystem and I know HP does a lot of consumer-hostile stuff but I bought my HP laser from Costco (who refuse to sell subscription printers) mostly because of it's support for AirPrint with no additional software.
And it works, the quality is great, and I'm happy. Didn't have to install anything.
Re: Microsoft to kill off third-party printer drivers in Windows
#4I live in the Apple ecosystem and I know HP does a lot of consumer-hostile stuff but I bought my HP laser from Costco (who refuse to sell subscription printers) mostly because of it's support for AirPrint with no additional software. And it works, the quality is great, and I'm happy. Didn't have to install anything.
HP laser printers are not on the subscription model? I sought out a Brother laser printer specifically due to several bad experiences with lockout on HP printers.
Re: Microsoft to kill off third-party printer drivers in Windows
#5I live in the Apple ecosystem and I know HP does a lot of consumer-hostile stuff but I bought my HP laser from Costco (who refuse to sell subscription printers) mostly because of it's support for AirPrint with no additional software. And it works, the quality is great, and I'm happy. Didn't have to install anything.
HP laser printers are not on the subscription model? I sought out a Brother laser printer specifically due to several bad experiences with lockout on HP printers.
Some are. Some aren't. Some try to trick you. Costco only sell subscription-free models.
If you go to Amazon and look up Brother laser printers you'll see that most of those now also come with subscription plans called "Refresh", so, you can't win.
Re: Microsoft to kill off third-party printer drivers in Windows
#6This is solely because HP is so terrible at updating their drivers for new operating systems. Every HP printer I've owned eventually didn't support the next version of windows. No brother printer I've ever owned has had this problem.
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Re: Microsoft to kill off third-party printer drivers in Windows
#8This is solely because HP is so terrible at updating their drivers for new operating systems. Every HP printer I've owned eventually didn't support the next version of windows. No brother printer I've ever owned has had this problem.
I’ve been able to print to the newest HP Officejet 8000 series from Windows 7 Embedded by just picking the 6000 series driver from the list. If all you wish to do is “print” there is quite a bit of backwards compatibility in the printer. Other features like scanning may be less so, and the phoning-home ink-pestering notifications aren’t there which seems like a win.
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#9Printing at home is so horrible. I have a printer connected to my Wifi router. It changes IP every time I reboot. When it changes IP, Windows can't find it. I can give the printer a static IP but how many people know to do this? Wifi has been around for more than 2 decades. Isn't that enough time to figure out a solution?
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
HP laser printers are not on the subscription model? I sought out a Brother laser printer specifically due to several bad experiences with lockout on HP printers.
Some are. Some aren't. Some try to trick you. Costco only sell subscription-free models. If you go to Amazon and look up Brother laser printers you'll see that most of those now also come with subscription plans called "Refresh", so, you can't win.
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