Haven't you noticed by now that, although HP appears to know something about designing useful hardware, it's clear they couldn't program their way out of a very shallow paper bag? The last time I tried installing the driver for the color scanner/printer I bought, I almost broke down in tears after about an hour. Yes, an hour. And that was with *nothing* actually going wrong! Oh, man, don't get me started.
Yes, you are so right. The rest of the software with this scanner is frighteningly bad, too. I am so glad I avoided their printers, and have stuck with Canon for my pix.
If there were any economic justice in the world... Sigh.
I would take issues about the quality of their hardware. Hewlett Packard made fine hardware, but I don't think HP does.
Some of their current printers, scanners and cameras are not as well designed and built as they were a few years ago. There have been measurable drops (measured by Consumer Reports) in their PC build quality.fg
This really troubles me - I grew up as an experimental physicist and Hewlett Packard was the primo brand. I still use a HP-35 calculator (RPN forever) for doing my taxes and have solid/robust/easy to use test equipment that is 20 years old. They seem to have lost the recipe.
on software - we have a 5 year old laser printer from them. They never got their drivers working well for OS X. Thank heaven for CUPS.
Haven't you noticed by now that, although HP appears to know something about designing useful hardware, it's clear they couldn't program their way out of a very shallow paper bag? The last time I tried installing the driver for the color scanner/printer I bought, I almost broke down in tears after about an hour. Yes, an hour. And that was with *nothing* actually going wrong! Oh, man, don't get me started.
ReplyDeleteYes, you are so right. The rest of the software with this scanner is frighteningly bad, too. I am so glad I avoided their printers, and have stuck with Canon for my pix.
ReplyDeleteIf there were any economic justice in the world... Sigh.
I would take issues about the quality of their hardware. Hewlett Packard made fine hardware, but I don't think HP does.
ReplyDeleteSome of their current printers, scanners and cameras are not as well designed and built as they were a few years ago. There have been measurable drops (measured by Consumer Reports) in their PC build quality.fg
This really troubles me - I grew up as an experimental physicist and Hewlett Packard was the primo brand. I still use a HP-35 calculator (RPN forever) for doing my taxes and have solid/robust/easy to use test equipment that is 20 years old. They seem to have lost the recipe.
on software - we have a 5 year old laser printer from them. They never got their drivers working well for OS X. Thank heaven for CUPS.