HP Photosmart - 9.7

I have a Laserjet 1200 and a Photosmart 2610xi connected to an iMac G5. When I got the 2610 a couple of years (?) ago, the 1200 stopped printing. HP told me the laserjet and the inkjet divisions do not work together, so I was out of luck. When Leopard came out, I bought it hoping my problems would be solved. Both printers worked flawlessly, but the reason was we never bothered to load the scanner function. My daughter needed it last week, so I pulled out the disc and reloaded the software, in order to get the scanner to work. Now, the scanner works, as well as the copier and printer (haven't had to fax anything since), but the 1200 doesn't work now.

I found this website and anxiously installed the Photosmart driver. Still no luck; the 1200 status is "connecting", but never prints (before this install, it was "stopped").

Is the 1200 too old and should just be junked? Is it a bad idea to buy two different HP printers for the same computer (better to use two different brands?)

It may be that this applies only to 2600 series Photosmart printers.

Are you kidding?! That late-breaker is from 2003.

However, I had a problem using a HP scanner and the HP all-in-one 4315 at the same time last year. I had downloaded the most recent drivers from their web site. Evidently, the problem was that the device manager could not distinguish between the two scanners. (The scanner in the 4315 was dirty out of the box.) I gave away the photo scanner and am still using the all-in-one 4315.

This update does not support my Photosmart 7350 - and the earlier drivers don't work on my Mac Pro. If a manufacturer builds and sell a printer it is their responsibility to support that product through it's useful life-span. Since they still sells ink for the 7350 it is considered viable by at least some people at HP. Why, then, don't the software designers who develop their drivers support it? Clearly the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing. This is a cautionary tale for anyone considering buying a new HP printer. Their support is poorly integrated, inconsistent and unreliable.

I was hoping this installer would address the permissions problems which occurred with 9.7b on 10.5.1. It made it worse.

Running Repair Permissions from Disk Utility after either of these installs will make you dizzy from watching all the errors reported.