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The two stars are for drivers and back. The printer itself seems to be OK once you regain it working. From bitter experience, if you are planning to exercise Vista on a locally-connected P2015, you will fail unless you do EXACTLY as I say below. (righteous as of 9/15/2007; things may change in the future) :
1. Situation the CD that comes in the box under your coffee cup. It has no other spend.
2. Do Not call HP tech succor. Their non-US-based representatives are apparently trained to be evasive about Vista back, and they will give you noxious information about choosing and installing drivers. They will also stutter you to ignore everything you read on the HP Web region about Vista compatibility, which (astoundingly) is sound advice.
3. Download the PCL 5 Vista drivers from the HP product page. Do not utilize PCL 6 or Universal drivers.
4. Do not bustle the "EZ Install" program that downloads with the drivers. Although these are Vista drivers, that program does not work with Vista.
5. Add the printer through the Windows control panel. Settle the highest-numbered USB port. Teach it you "Have Disk", then browse to where the drivers downloaded (probably C:HP LaserJet P2015 PnP)
6. Resolve the first of the two .inf files you will be offered
7. Travel with the installation.
My opinion: HP's misinformation and evasiveness about Vista encourage for their printers should do buyers deem twice about choosing the heed until they earn their act together. (Another of my HP printers is mild promising driver availability "by April 2007". I hope the engineers enjoyed their summer!) While one could reasonably blame Microsoft for the incompatibilities, the fact is that most computers sold today have Vista, and peripheral manufacturers need to regain on board. Until then, having expansive hardware is irrelevant.
My HP Laserjet 5L finally went to printer heaven recently so I found myself in the market for a modern one. I was always very pleased with the HP and have never had problems with drivers or finding toner cartridges so I decided to go with HP again. I purchased the Laserjet 2015 and so far am quite pleased. Initially I had problems getting it dwelling up with VISTA Premium. The driver/software installer on the CD would not hurry and I had problems getting current downloaded drivers status up correctly. However, determination paid off and I finally got it installed. This is one fleet printer compared to the veteran HP 5L. I suspect it's hitting the rated 27 pages/minute (it spits the pages out so snappily that it scares my cats!) . I particularly like having a paper tray where the paper lays flat instead of the top-loading paper slot on the faded one where the paper would open to curl after a while. It's also great easier to deal with a USB 2.0 cable in status of the primitive parallel cable. This model may be a exiguous bit of overkill for personal exhaust but would be a titanic printer for multiple users, a home-based office or business, all the arrangement up to moderate sized businesses. If this unit gives me the same service the archaic one did (I estimate somewhere around 10 years) then I'll score my money's worth out of it. It also didn't distress that HP has a $100 rebate through September so this puppy came discontinuance enough to the sign of the small HP 1022 that made this one an easy remove!
I purchased this for the office and overall I am very jubilant with the printer performance. It is smaller, less noisy, less expensive, and faster than the HP 2420's that we have in the office. I would definitely pick another P2015 instead of the 2420. The cartridge cost and yield is about the same for both printers. When I print to this printer, I tend to print a larger number of pages (50-500) and it spits them out very fast. When I print single pages it seems to spool up fast and turn the motor noise down lickety-split after it's done.
That's the edifying fragment. The awful section is the software / drivers. They were immoral to install. First, I tried connecting it to a PC running Vista. No go. The software said it was not compatible. Then I tried hooking it up to a Windows 2003 Server. Again, no go - not compatible. Finally, after a deep search of HP's wait on state (they didn't invent it easy) I found their unusual universal print driver. It worked, but I'm calm running into errors on XP PCs that are using this printer as a network printer. I haven't even tried to gain it working on Vista again. Very frustrating.
