Books, newspapers, and magazines are printed perfectly all the time, why is it such a hassle to get home printers set up? Software is buggy and hard to work with even for professionals, and the hardware is always having issues. Home printers have been around for a long time and in general modern software is quite sophisticated. This seems like something we would have figured out by now. Even in offices, it’s hard for IT to set up printers. Why haven’t we gotten printers that just always work? Is there some fundamental problem we can’t solve?
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I’m an I.T. director, my team probably supports around 200 printers. We have fully switched to using “universal” print drivers, which in my experience are vastly more stable than the native drivers for specific printers. If a brand doesn’t offer a UPD we don’t buy that brand.
Most printers on the market are capable of PCL6 emulation, so in theory the [HP UPD](https://support.hp.com/us-en/drivers/selfservice/hp-universal-print-driver-series-for-windows/503548) version 7.0.1.24923 should work for most printers.
The “HP Smart” software that HP is currently pushing is trash.
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