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addiecool · Nov 14, 2003, 05:44 AM

Hi!

Just bought a HP Color Laserjet 1500L USB Printer. The Printer works fine but when I print more than one copy, it spits out only one copy and the print center kinda hangs and stops sending data to the printer.

I have to delete the job and send a fresh job for each copy. This happened with my Laserjet 2200 under Jaguar also. Hasn't Apple fixed these prolems.

10.3 on a clean install not upgrade running on a PowerMac dual 800 with 1GIG RAM.

Any ideas?

mcsjgs · Nov 14, 2003, 02:05 PM

You can try this:

http://www.allosx.com/1067395661/index_html

Supposedly this is included in the 10.3.1 update.

Art Vandelay · Nov 14, 2003, 02:08 PM

Originally posted by addiecool:
Hi!

Just bought a HP Color Laserjet 1500L USB Printer. The Printer works fine but when I print more than one copy, it spits out only one copy and the print center kinda hangs and stops sending data to the printer.

I have to delete the job and send a fresh job for each copy. This happened with my Laserjet 2200 under Jaguar also. Hasn't Apple fixed these prolems.

10.3 on a clean install not upgrade running on a PowerMac dual 800 with 1GIG RAM.

Any ideas?

Apple doesn't make the print drivers, HP does. Blame HP.

mcsjgs · Nov 15, 2003, 10:24 AM

There is a new Laserjet print driver by HP available for download here:

HP Laserjet Driver Download Link

addiecool · Nov 16, 2003, 07:53 AM

Thanks mcsjgs.

The driver link is for HP monochrome laserjets. Mine is a Color Laserjet 1500. Anyways lets hope for a new driver release for panther.

addiecool · Nov 18, 2003, 05:06 AM

Man it was Apple's fault after all. The printer was not working in 10.3.1. i just reinstalled to a clean 10.3 system and it started working fine. The moment I upgraded to 10.3.1 it stopped working again. What a mess!!!!! Seems apple's updates destroys thing rather than fix them

Well just reinstalled again to 10.3 and all is fine

Love Calm Quiet · Nov 18, 2003, 06:47 AM

Well, "fault" is a weird thing to figure.
Yes, 10.3.1 apparently *broke* the HP drivers.
A pain!
It's hard to say, however, whether 10.3.1 broke the HP drivers because of Apple's mis-programming or whether is simply disclosed some non-supported short-cut that HP programmers took (and thought they could get away with because it worked with 10.3.0 even tho it wasn't following standards).

"Fault" is tough to assign without all the inside facts.
[And FWIW, HP sure seems to have a slack approach to driver for Mac OS.]

addiecool · Nov 18, 2003, 09:26 AM

Hmmmm. Yes "Fault" will not be right... And yes HP is no good with Mac OS. Oh! Well lets hope for the better

Big Mac · Nov 18, 2003, 04:18 PM

People really didn't have a problem with HP until the advent of OS X. Now, of course, HP could abandon OS X completely and we'd still be better with OS X than we were with OS 9. But it's just strange that HP can't code a good driver for a Unix based platform that is far more open and ostensibly friendly to developers than its predecessor. Either HP doesn't give a flying f**k, or drivers are harder to write for OS X than they should be.