Massive printer driver

[gingerjedi]

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.

 

[AtW]

They install a lot of tulip these days, the driver is still 5 MB or maybe even less - additional bloatware is far more though

 

[d000hg]

Probably right. "Printer management suite" running in the background the whole time.

 

[RSoles]

Not to mention popping up a warning message every time my laptop's switched on.
Ahhh! Ahhh Panic!, no printer! Ahh! Ahh!

It's a fscking laptop, the printer's five hundred miles away.

Another reason why I'm never going to buy another HP printer.

 

[xoggoth]

HP? Start programs, tasks, IE addins, updates, undeletable directories in program files, loads of stuff in libraries, things in MS installer cleanup you can't identify. Never again.

 

[Clippy]

On the disc that came with the printer or from their website, your should be able to download just the driver without all the other gumph.

 

[ASB]

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.

You can download a driver only variant which doesn't install all the crud that goes with it

 

[gingerjedi]

You can download a driver only variant which doesn't install all the crud that goes with it

I deselected everything but the driver, the HP site one was still 100Mb+.

I like the manual duplexing though.

 

[Sysman]

There's a big all in one HP jobby next to my desk at work. It doesn't half make a fuss when it's actually printing something.

Clank, whirr, shuffle, kerfuffle. Hey Look! It's Me At Work!

I use the non-HP printer in the hall instead

On another note, the worst Mac installation procedure I've come across in recent years was for a Lacie DVD burner. Presumably due to the LightScribe stuff, HP had got the job of authoring the installation disk and a real pile of cack it was. I ended up copying the lot to disk and modifying it to get it working. The drive itself is a nice piece of kit, but I wasn't surprised to see returns of that model sitting on the shelf the next time I was in any shop which sold them.

 

[ASB]

I deselected everything but the driver, the HP site one was still 100Mb+.

I like the manual duplexing though.

They do offer a so called 'basic print and scan driver'. So I went to check, and yes 125mb.