Lukas Beeler’s IT Blog

Windows Vista is out - since half a year. But the hardware manufacturers are still catching up. While printing on Vista with HP devices works flawlessly now, the MFP front is not that green.

The drivers that are out for the semi-professional MFP devices (like the MFP 3027x) and Windows Vista are for printing only - they don’t contain faxing or scanning software. While the latter isn’t that much of a problem because you can use digital sending from the device (to email, or to folder for the more expensive devices), faxing is an issue. Of course you can print the fax, and then scan it. But that’s pretty ugly (and not to mention expensive in terms of employee time, toner, paper).

Luckily, the HP Fax drivers for Windows XP work without problems on Windows Vista (of course only on 32bit Versions). I wasn’t brave enough to install the HP toolsuite for Windows XP in order to try scanning (too much garbage included).

I think it’s a shame that most manufacturers didn’t have drivers out on 31.01.2007 - the official consumer launch date for Windows Vista.