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<blockquote data-quote="Mikeo512" data-source="post: 1875650" data-attributes="member: 404931">Feeling kinda lonely here - the only one who can't get his HP printer to print!Jag 500 says:I'm currently running Big Sur 11.2 on a 2017 15 MBP. Just this mornning HP updated their HP Smart browser software and it works perfectly with my HP Envy 7640 printer/scanner. It worked before the update as well. Did you try the update?I tried to download the software for the HP Envy 7460 - but it refused to come down from HP when the latter realised there was no such printer here. (It's connected with a USB cable BTW.)Is this behaviour by HP some kind of planned obsolesce ploy? Declining to provide a driver for their HP 3050 J610 that's still in good working order? And this in the expectation that they'll sell another printer? Am I the only person with such a printer and Big Sur that's confronted with this problem? The 'Air Drop' /&nbsp; 'network' solution is all well and good but I really don't want to tie up the other Mac just for this.&nbsp; If I'm eventually forced into buying a new printer, it will&nbsp; not be an HP.M</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mikeo512, post: 1875650, member: 404931"] Feeling kinda lonely here - the only one who can't get his HP printer to print! Jag 500 says: [I]I'm currently running Big Sur 11.2 on a 2017 15 MBP. Just this mornning HP updated their HP Smart browser software and it works perfectly with my HP Envy 7640 printer/scanner. It worked before the update as well. Did you try the update?[/I] I tried to download the software for the HP Envy 7460 - but it refused to come down from HP when the latter realised there was no such printer here. (It's connected with a USB cable BTW.) Is this behaviour by HP some kind of planned obsolesce ploy? Declining to provide a driver for their HP 3050 J610 that's still in good working order? And this in the expectation that they'll sell another printer? Am I the only person with such a printer and Big Sur that's confronted with this problem? The 'Air Drop' / 'network' solution is all well and good but I really don't want to tie up the other Mac just for this. If I'm eventually forced into buying a new printer, it will not be an HP. M [/QUOTE]

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