OT - HP printer drivers seem fixed on OS 10.2.3

[Jim Soriano]

Sorry for both the slightly off-topic nature and belated answer to an 
old thread in this forum...

Somebody (Trevor?) was having problems with HP printer drivers in OS 
10.1.x and 10.2.x.  I just ran across this blurb from Mac911 on it 
being fixed.  I can also comment that I think it's fixed on my 
TiPBG4-800 running 10.2.3, as I've been printing up a storm the last 
week on my OfficeJet d145 with no apparent memory leaks or spinning HP 
Communicator tasks.

So, the solution may indeed be to upgrade to 10.2.3 and HP's 4.6.3 
release.

Regards,

Jim

> -------------------------
> MACWORLD WEEKLY NEWSLETTER
> 01.07.03 - 01.13.03
> Macworld - The Mac Product Experts
> -------------------------
<snip>
> MAC 911 WEEKLY
> ---------------------------------------------------
> By Christopher Breen, Contributing Editor, Macworld 
> (mac911 at macworld.com)
<snip>
> UPDATE
<snip>
> I also mentioned that you might try open-source drivers for
> certain Hewlett-Packard printers because of an incompatibility
> between Mac OS X 10.2.2 and some HP printer models. Since I
> originally penned that suggestion, Apple has release Mac OS X
> 10.2.3, which fixes that incompatibility.
>
> For those who care about such things, the incompatibility was
> related to a general USB polling problem -- one where a memory
> leak resulted from the HP communications application constantly
> polling the USB chain to determine if a camera memory card was
> inserted in a Photosmart printer. This problem affected any USB
> device that polled the USB chain so can't be pinned strictly on
> HP's drivers or hardware.
>
> Apple has shown HP a way to get the same results without polling
> the USB chain. Future drivers will use this Apple-recommended
> method.
>
>