I just downloaded Lion on my laptop... and I just came back from buying a new mac at apple store with Lion on it. Got the promotion of the $99 off for buying a new printer. Put in the disc and guess what... the printer doesn't work with 10.6 or above. Big Oops. And, there is no update online for HP. So, with all this marketing commotion with Lion... the printers aren't compatible.
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Big Apple Oops / HP doesn't like Lion
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Look for an alternate driver. There wasn't an official driver for my printer but found one that works.
When I got my MBP back in 2007, I got a free Canon printer with it. I haven't tried with Lion, but when I re-installed Snow Leopard a few months ago I had to spend about 45 minutes downloading and re-downloading drivers to get the printer to work, and even then it wouldn't work on my home network.
Long story short... I'm not surprised.
Long story short... I'm not surprised.
Buy a postscript compatible printer.
They cost a little more, but you will NEVER have a problem getting it to work on any future OS release *ever*, whether it be Mac OS X, Windows, Linux or anything else.
Postscript is the most universal printer language there is. Every system supports it out of the box.
They cost a little more, but you will NEVER have a problem getting it to work on any future OS release *ever*, whether it be Mac OS X, Windows, Linux or anything else.
Postscript is the most universal printer language there is. Every system supports it out of the box.
Don't use the drivers from the disk. Find anything that you installed with that and delete it. Then plug the printer in and turn it on. It should have all the drivers you need. Same thing happened with my HP printer when I upgraded to 10.6 from 10.5, since they integrated the drivers into the OS.