Massive printer driver

[vetran]

Try universal printer driver from HP its a little lighter and if you have multiple HP printers works quite well.

[OwlHoot]

I just installed an HP Deskjet printer at home, I de-selected all the gumph but was still left with a driver that required 348Mb of disk space!

WTF is that all about, why so much? Last time I installed a printer it wanted 5Mb max.

I remember the same a couple of years ago - The install went on, and on, and on, and on, ... I'm sure it took much longer to install then Windows!

I'll be looking for a decent double-sided laser printer soon, and I'll definitely go with Epson if they do one rather than HP.

[xoggoth]

My PC came with Lightscribe. Has anyone actually used it?

[pmeswani]

I just installed an HP Deskjet printer at home, I de-selected all the gumph but was still left with a driver that required 348Mb of disk space!

WTF is that all about, why so much? Last time I installed a printer it wanted 5Mb max.

Do Apple make Printers?

[Sysman]

My PC came with Lightscribe. Has anyone actually used it?

Nope. I looked at the price of the discs you need and thought I'd carry on using my existing stock of discs and sticky labels.

Probably naive of me to think that HP would offer something that cost less than printer ink. I'd have another look at doing it if I were going to do some official looking distributions though.

[Sysman]

Try universal printer driver from HP its a little lighter and if you have multiple HP printers works quite well.

I seem to remember that some of the HP printer driver team had done some open sourcee-stylee drivers, which also made it easier to share USB printers. This might have just been for Linux / Unix platforms though.

If you want to use a non-Windows platform for printing to HP printers, there is the Gutenprint project.

Do Apple make Printers?

Not any more.