Wednesday, November 14,2007 @ 12:25pm
HP verifies Leopard printer driver delivery via OS
Confirming a previous report from MacNN, Hewlett Packard has now confirmed Leopard support of HP printer drivers. In late September an HP representative told MacNN that Apple was asking developers to test the delivery of HP drivers through Software Update, and that those developers using HP printers verify that Leopard's built-in printer drivers were able to operate those devices. HP is telling Mac owners that they don't need to download or reinstall any additional printer software for print-only functionality, as there is full driver support for more than 1,000 HP peripherals built into Mac OS X Leopard.
The company also announced its support for more than 200 HP peripherals under Mac OS X Tiger, adding that customers needn't download or reinstall any additional software for print-only functionality under that operating system either.
"The wide range of HP printer driver support built into Tiger provides Mac users easy plug and print compatibility for hundreds of HP peripherals over any I/O, whether USB, Ethernet, 802.11b/g Wi-Fi and Bonjour; depending on the printer and connection type," HP writes in its Mac product support page. "HP continues to offer great connectivity support over any type of I/O including USB, Ethernet, 802.11b/g WiFi, and seamless Bonjour compatibility with new Mac OS X v10.5."