They had 6 months extra to develop scanner drivers for Leopard than initially planned. As it is strategies like opening installer packages to extract individual installers were necessary for some scanners, while others didn't work at all. I'm glad the kludge worked for my HP 3970, but it really could have been more smooth.

You can also add the Canon Selphy ES1 and ES2 photoprinters to the list of incompatible printers.

It is completely obvious that HP is not terribly concerned about Leopard (or Mac) users.

Printing in OS X is an absolute disaster in general and HP doesn't do anything to help it. I do not believe I should be forced to install a third-party PPC binary (epgs) + some filter (gimp-print + footmatic or whatever it's called this week) mechanism in order to print to my HP printer installed on a Windows host.

But this article was about HP, not Canon...

The reference page says "Click here (c01231085) (in English) to view the list of HP print only drivers built into Mac OS X v10.5 (Leopard)" but following the link brings no such list.

Anyone got it, or found it?

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The reference page says "Click here (c01231085) (in English) to view the list of HP print only drivers built into Mac OS X v10.5 (Leopard)" but following the link brings no such list.

Anyone got it, or found it?

Surprisingly enough, I have not had any issues printing with my three printers - an old LaserJet 8000DN, an AIO 7310 and an AIO 7410. I was able to quickly connect through Bonjour to the office printers and home printer. I can even scan on the AIO printers without any issues. While the scanning S/W is not the best in teh world, it does its job and I have few complaints. Frankly speaking, I was surprised at how easy this was.

HP in their press releases promised scanner software updates by the end of the year:

http://h41140.www4.hp.com/mac_connect/pdf/Mac_OS_launch_special.pdf

I went to the same page for the list of drivers and got nothing as well. I just switched to a Mac and can not find the drivers. There is a universal driver (ojj5780) for macs but it won't install. It gets stuck during the installation process. Anyone have a similar issue. I recently emailed HP will post the reply if it is useful.

Well be that as it may I can inform you that Both HP Scanjet 3800 scanner and HP Laserjet 1020 printer as well as the HP ScanPro software and installer disks do NOT work with OS X.5.1 Leopard.

I received multiple mailings from HP stating they are ready for Leopard. Of course I had thought that sort of arrogance would be backed by some sort of technical acumen or preparedness. It is that stupidity that made me purchase HP (thousand dollar printers) in the first place.

So I upgraded my entire group to Leopard hoping to achieve some sort or process speed increase as we beat the 1's and 0's out of our machines. Guess what,?!?! No more scanning capability.

So I go to the HP website and guess what? Nothing in the technical support listings. Hmmmm maybe I am the first person to realize this in the entire world. Ahhhmmmm So I try and reach HP support via there online chat support. Surprise, surprise... doesn't work with leopard or safari I should say.

I know I'll send an email through their preferred customer support line. Here was my response automagically generated!

HP Color LaserJet 2840 All-In-One E-Mail Support



Dear Customer,

Thank you for emailing HP.

Please note: At this moment we have an issue with this Mail System, your mail cannot reach the Support teams . Should you need technical support for an HP product, we recommend using one of the following alternatives:

Visit the HP Business Support Centre to find manuals, technical documentation, software and driver downloads: http://www.hp.com/emea/bizsupport
Use HP Instant Support to chat with a support agent: http://h50203.www5.hp.com/hpisweb/customer/HPInstantsupport.aspx
Contact HP by phone http://welcome.hp.com/country/us/en/wwcontact_us.html
This is an automatically generated message. Please do not reply to this e-mail.

Yours Sincerely,
HP Global Delivery, Technology Services

HP - If you do not want Apple clients quit yanking our chain. We don't want you either, we just have lapses in decision making sometimes. This is such a farce it should be addressed by some attorney general or something. You waste my time, my money, and lie in public. Get a clue, get a development team, get a CIO, get a leader that can make good on commitments, and buy a clue (with my money obviously)

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MACGUYINSUIT wrote:
So I go to the HP website and guess what? Nothing in the technical support listings. Hmmmm maybe I am the first person to realize this in the entire world. Ahhhmmmm So I try and reach HP support via there online chat support. Surprise, surprise... doesn't work with leopard or safari I should say.

I know I'll send an email through their preferred customer support line. Here was my response automagically generated!

HP Color LaserJet 2840 All-In-One E-Mail Support



Dear Customer,

Thank you for emailing HP.

Please note: At this moment we have an issue with this Mail System, your mail cannot reach the Support teams . Should you need technical support for an HP product, we recommend using one of the following alternatives:

Visit the HP Business Support Centre to find manuals, technical documentation, software and driver downloads: http://www.hp.com/emea/bizsupport
Use HP Instant Support to chat with a support agent: http://h50203.www5.hp.com/hpisweb/customer/HPInstantsupport.aspx
Contact HP by phone http://welcome.hp.com/country/us/en/wwcontact_us.html
This is an automatically generated message. Please do not reply to this e-mail.

Yours Sincerely,
HP Global Delivery, Technology Services

HP - If you do not want Apple clients quit yanking our chain. We don't want you either, we just have lapses in decision making sometimes. This is such a farce it should be addressed by some attorney general or something. You waste my time, my money, and lie in public. Get a clue, get a development team, get a CIO, get a leader that can make good on commitments, and buy a clue (with my money obviously)

Still no support for the C7280 and also says so in HP site! Before Leopard you could press "Start Copy" and could scan from HP PhotoSmart or Photoshop...no more. Get this error in the "Scan to computer" option under the "Scan menu button" Refor to device documentation to troubleshoot" well this is bogus since there is no device documentation. Go to Apple site and selling this but why doesn't Apple say, "not full compatible with 10.5"?

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Still no support for the C7280 and also says so in HP site! Before Leopard you could press "Start Copy" and could scan from HP PhotoSmart or Photoshop...no more. Get this error in the "Scan to computer" option under the "Scan menu button" Refor to device documentation to troubleshoot" well this is bogus since there is no device documentation. Go to Apple site and selling this but why doesn't Apple say, "not full compatible with 10.5"?

My printer is HP 1000 laserjet. This printer not compatible under leopard why? I install new driver for hp 1000, but not print under 10.5.1. In to macosx 10.4.11 is OK

help me

There's no help possible. Like the rest of us, you'll have to wait till the drivers are posted on line.

I've very close to buying a new printer/scanner. . . . Willing to wait until next weekend.

If you have not yet found the list of drivers included with Leopard, please check the link below to a document on Apple's web site. Apple designed the OS and is going to know best, which drivers were/were not included. Also, this page includes a listing of drivers, not only for HP, but for the following manufacturers:
Apple - Brother - Canon - Epson - HP - Lexmark - Ricoh - Samsung - Xerox - Fuji Xerox.

The link is: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306684

These listings include which Gimp print drivers are included, and denotes whether the driver is modern or not.

Any questions, just ask.

Have a look at this...

http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/MacOSX/hpijs

I'm too new at Mac to try to figure this out, but it might help someone..

I get a message on my printer saying 'Requested Language not available'. What does that mean? The job disappears from the print Queue a few seconds after connecting to the printer. My mac: Mac Pro 2x2.66 GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon running OS X 10.5.2.

thanks in advance.
Uma

You are trying to send postscript to a PCL printer?

HP Officejet K550 Pro:

after installing Leopard, double side printing is working incorrectly. There 2 modes ("bindings"):
(1) like in a book, (2) like in a notepad.

With either of the bindings chosen, 2-side printing always
works according with the 2nd binding.

Does anybody knows how to fix this?