Bought an HP F4580 wireless printer to replace a 13-year-old HP “workhorse” inkjet. Like the printer. WiFi Protected setup didn’t work, though, so I went to the utility on the setup disk.
*arrrgghhh!*
If there is a circle of hell for the purveyors of rude software, HP will reside there for eternity. ALL I wanted to do was run the wireless connection wizard, but no! Attempting to cancel the installation of all the other HP crap canceled the wizard. *gag-puke-spew*
Now, I have to decrapify the computer I used to install the printer.
I like the product, but HP is working very, very hard to make me hate the company.
Yeh, yeh: this was one of those “I do these stupid things so others don’t have to” kind of things. Naturally, when I went to other computers to select this printer for others on the network to use, not one could “automagically” find and install the driver, so that had to be done manually, and no I did NOT allow the HP crap to install itself elsewhere (I didn’t need the wireless setup wizard at this point). But *sheesh*, could HP have made it more clunky to manually install the drivers? I don’t think so. What a PITA.
And now I have to dig out which of the drivers included on the CD is the TWAIN driver, so that folks can initiate a scan from their computers over the network, as well as simply print from their lappy or whatnot. All the drivers installed (along with all the crapware) on the computer I initially connected with a USB cable, but installing the printer driver apparently doesn’t include the full functions of the printer.
HP is really beginning to chap my gizzard.