Al,
I used to share your love of HP products which is why we have so many here at our office. But as of late their software and drivers are a perfect example of your concept of Bloatware. And I continue to have issues with them half a year after installing their stuff on my machines. I am convinced that this is because I installed their stuff with the "ET phone home" uninstalled.
We still have an old HP K-60 that I just loved. It too didn't have XP drivers although for a while it ran OK with the windows supplies drive that is in the OS itself. Then it started to get funky. In light of the trend issues we had of late now I wonder if some of them were just the security package getting in the way of the computers and the printer being able to talk each other clearly... Back then it never dawned on, and this his how and why I ended up getting Nancy the 6300 for the backroom NYS Rx's.
But the issue here is to stop printing, wasting ink and paper on all the faxes we all get hammered on each and everyday. So the real question to you is, does this nice tidy unit do real in and out, recieve and send PC faxing, which is something most printer, HP's included just don't do. I am tired of killing all these trees and paying for the pivilege of doing so. Bert's FAP and the scansnap aside, it is still a pain in the rump and a waste of money. We are all looking for a machine to allow this PC faxing at a reasonable price.
