One of the most common complaints that I hear from PC owners is \u201cWhere are the windows 7 drivers for my hardware?\u201d<\/p>\n
Many of the same companies that just couldn\u2019t seem to produce drivers for Vista haven\u2019t done any better with Windows 7.<\/p>\n
HP receives most of the printer driver complaints but when you consider that they also provide the majority of printers to the business community and a significant portion of the home user market, it isn\u2019t all that surprising that they get the largest number of complaints.<\/p>\n
To try and alleviate this problem HP provides a Universal <\/em><\/strong>printer driver. The only problem is that half the time it just doesn\u2019t work.<\/p>\n When asked, HP doesn\u2019t seem to have any answers for frustrated owners other than a blog post on why it is so hard to provide printer drivers.<\/p>\n According to HP,<\/p>\n “A printer driver is specific to the exact model of printer. Many printers have variations within a range. For example, the HP PhotoSmart 4200 has eleven different models within the range. Each printer model number has to be tested separately and with a huge variety of applications, from MS Word to commonly used freeware.<\/p>\n There are literally rooms full of printer models running on computers with a new operating system printing from dozens of different applications. This process takes a long time and is very labor intensive. If a defect is found, it has to be fixed and the entire testing process re-started. It often takes longer and costs more money to test a printer driver than to create one.”<\/p>\n Since Microsoft and HP work together to provide drivers for all of the models that have been released over the last few years, I can\u2019t help but wonder if there is another reason for the lack of printer drivers \u2026 such as forcing people to update their printer hardware \u2026 which is a practice right out of Microsoft\u2019s playbook.<\/p>\n Perhaps, HP should take another play out of the Microsoft playbook. Put out BETA <\/strong><\/em>versions of the printer drivers and let the users test them and report any problems they encounter. That should be both cheaper and get working drivers to users a lot faster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Windows 7 printer drivers not available!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[177,25],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easydriverpro.com\/driver-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easydriverpro.com\/driver-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easydriverpro.com\/driver-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easydriverpro.com\/driver-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easydriverpro.com\/driver-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.easydriverpro.com\/driver-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1315,"href":"https:\/\/www.easydriverpro.com\/driver-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions\/1315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easydriverpro.com\/driver-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easydriverpro.com\/driver-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easydriverpro.com\/driver-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}