Hello, and welcome to In My Bag! My name is Jenn, and this is my product review blog. 
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.
The sad thing is, they’ve probably decided to drop that printer entirely and create a new printer with a driver that is buggy with anything BUT Vista.
Hey, I have the same problem. HP does not want to update the driver to Vista. Instead they want you to buy a new printer. HP sucks!