I thought I’d make an update on the progress of my HP Photosmart 8750 Professional Photo Printer. If you haven’t read the entry, or don’t feel like re-reading it, I was having some issues with printing due to there being a bug with the Windows Vista “compatible” driver that HP released, and these were my options:

  • Install Windows XP on either my desktop or laptop and print from there, as the border and sizing bug is exclusive to Windows Vista
  • Install Mac OS X Leopard on my laptop and try printing from there (again, the bug seems to be exclusive to Vista)
  • Deal with the borders and jaggedness
  • Bitch to the high heavens at HP
  • Upgrade to a printer that doesn’t have these issues
  • Find some sort of workaround

I really don’t want to keep Windows XP around just for printing purposes. That’s a ridiculous inconvenience. And my laptop’s new hard drive isn’t here yet, so I haven’t installed Mac OS X Leopard.

Dealing with borders and jaggedness? I don’t think so.

I’m waiting an email back from HP. Apparently the printer is out of warranty, so they’re not wanting to do squat. That’s ridiculous though — regardless of whether the printer is under warranty or not, HP should release a truly Windows Vista compatible driver, since this issue IS well known and documented with many unhappy owners of this printer, myself included.

1:22pm