Anyone have any recommendations _against_ certain peripherals, or equipment combinations?
I have one: do not use HP's 750 or 950 PSC series with Mac OS X machines. It appears there's something wrong with the USB drivers that HP supplies for these model printers, as well as the general application design: each time you plug in the printer, a little "HP Director" application loads up (with an interface that belies its age) that progressively chews up your CPU and memory. People have written scripts to disable the thing, since HP doesn't provide a way to.
Worse yet, actually printing to the device causes your machine to slow to a crawl. It rendered a 600mHz G3 iBook nearly unusable, and it's still a noticeable hit on a 6-month-old 867mHz PowerBook G4. Reminiscent of the old days before multitasking, where you started a print job and then went to lunch.
My Canon and Epson-owning friends just shrug when I ask if they have similar problems.
(The output is gorgeous, though. Just takes forever to output. And it's just the inkjets, it seems. HP LaserJets work like a dream, as always.)
I have one: do not use HP's 750 or 950 PSC series with Mac OS X machines. It appears there's something wrong with the USB drivers that HP supplies for these model printers, as well as the general application design: each time you plug in the printer, a little "HP Director" application loads up (with an interface that belies its age) that progressively chews up your CPU and memory. People have written scripts to disable the thing, since HP doesn't provide a way to.
Worse yet, actually printing to the device causes your machine to slow to a crawl. It rendered a 600mHz G3 iBook nearly unusable, and it's still a noticeable hit on a 6-month-old 867mHz PowerBook G4. Reminiscent of the old days before multitasking, where you started a print job and then went to lunch.
My Canon and Epson-owning friends just shrug when I ask if they have similar problems.
(The output is gorgeous, though. Just takes forever to output. And it's just the inkjets, it seems. HP LaserJets work like a dream, as always.)
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