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Macworld 2010: Steve and Mike's excellent HP adventure

by Steven Sande Feb 16th 2010 at 9:00AM

One of the highlights of TUAW's visit to Macworld Expo 2010 was a pre-show tour of the HP booth on Wednesday, February 10. HP has a long and storied history with Apple, with both Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak working for the company at one time before founding Apple. The company has created many Mac-compatible printers over the years, and has worked quite closely with Apple in recent years to insure that drivers for current and past printers are included in Mac OS X.

HP's team welcomed us to their booth as the show was still being set up. Eric Killian, Worldwide Training Manager for SMB Inkjet Printing Systems, showed off two brand-new printers for the Mac; the OfficeJet 4500 All-in-one and the OfficeJet Pro 8500 Premier. The OfficeJet 4500 is not currently listed on the HP site, but we'll update this post when a link to the new member of the family is added to the product pages.

Annamaria Pardini, Segment Marketing Manager for HP Mac-connect, is in charge of HP's iPhone apps and talked with us about their HP12C and HP12C Platinum financial calculator apps, the HP15C scientific calculator app, the HP MediaSmart Server iStream app, the new Snapfish app, and the revised HP iPrint Photo 2.0 app.

If you're in the market for a large-format printer, HP also showcased the DesignJet Z2100 24" Photo Printer. With 8 color cartridges, custom color profile capabilities, and a wide range of media (from paper to canvas) to print on, the DesignJet Z2100 is a power tool for design professionals.

Check out the HD video of our tour by clicking the Read More link. Many thanks to our ace videographer and editor, Chad Mumm.


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Oboewan

It is INEXCUSABLE that HP can tout printers as "Mac Compatible" and then yank support with a decimal point OS upgrade that costs less than a single ink cartridge. This isn't moving from OS9 to OSX, people. It's not even moving from PPC to Intel. It is moving from 10.5 Leopard to 10.6 Snow Leopard. The fact that HP ignores their paying customers will DEFINITELY be taken into account next time I buy a printer. (P.S. I plan on taking advantage of the free printer deal from Apple as soon as the new MBPs come out. Which do you recommend? I heard Epsons are pretty ink efficient…)

February 16 2010 at 4:42 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Oboewan

Also, any company that feels the need to duplicate the functions of the operating system should at least do said functions as well as the operating system. I'm looking at you, HP scanning software.

February 16 2010 at 4:43 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Mike Kaufmann

HP includes Mac Software with it's printers, but it is crap compared to Apple Software. The scan software is a joke! The print drivers only print whole page documents to force you to use up your ink early!

February 16 2010 at 2:42 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jeff

HP-

how hard is it to make iPrint print emails, websites, etc. Show some innovation and get it done.

February 16 2010 at 1:15 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
David Frantz

I suspect my Brother all in one is better supported than the equivalent HP.

Between the issues I've had with various HP inkjets at home and a couple at work, it would be very hard to get me to buy an HP inkjet again. It is a shame too as their Laser jets seem to be rock solid.

February 16 2010 at 11:22 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
igrok

HP has abandoned many printers with each OS release. When Leopard came out, HP put out a release touting the fact that it would support its printers, many of which it never bothered to support at all. With Snow Leopard the situation did not appear to improve. Their all-in-ones are particularly prone to abandonment, as well as failure to ever support the scanners which form part of the machine. Might as well also mention the HP director software which apparently caused many problems with so many things. I've had several HP printers but never bought another after all the ones I had went unsupported in Leopard. I have no particular need to bash them here, but I have to respond to the notion that they've been mac friendly. They haven't.

February 16 2010 at 10:54 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
-fQ-

Apparently, you haven't kept tabs on HP lately. They are woefully behind putting our Snow Leopard drivers for many of its ScanJet scanners - and more than a few printers.

They have pushed back the release date for these several times with no explanation.

If you have one, I'd certainly like to read it.

February 16 2010 at 10:37 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Michael Rose

It's actually "The Unofficial Apple Weblog" -- HP got it wrong.

February 16 2010 at 10:33 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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