HP C4180 All-in-one drivers

If you let HP do the default 'driver' install, you lose 700 MB of disk
space. That's obscene.
Pare that down to the 'required files' and you stand to lose 200 MB
disk space.

Can anyone here tell me what are the absolute minimum files/drivers
required to get this printer/scanner to work?

I'm hoping for something in the range of 10-20 MB disk space (max.).
Even that seems large.

TIA

google3luo...@yahoo.com wrote:
> If you let HP do the default 'driver' install, you lose 700 MB of disk
> space. That's obscene.
> Pare that down to the 'required files' and you stand to lose 200 MB
> disk space.
>
> Can anyone here tell me what are the absolute minimum files/drivers
> required to get this printer/scanner to work?
>
> I'm hoping for something in the range of 10-20 MB disk space (max.).
> Even that seems large.
>
> TIA


I'm having a similar problem with my psc 1210. Everyone keeps telling
me to just install the software, but I refuse to waste my disk space
for that useless crap. HP support has not been helpful at all.

The HP website has some basic drivers for your printer which are about
49MB or less, depending on your OS. If you decide to try them, could
you let me know if they work, and how the installation process went?

On Apr 16, 8:34 pm, "Mike S." <littleboybl...@yahoo.com> wrote:


> The HP website has some basic drivers for your printer which are about
> 49MB or less, depending on your OS. If you decide to try them, could
> you let me know if they work, and how the installation process went?

Hi Mike, thanks for this tip. I might try them out if nothing else
is suggested and I'll get back to you then.

On Apr 16, 11:24 pm, google3luo...@yahoo.com wrote:
> On Apr 16, 8:34 pm, "Mike S." <littleboybl...@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi Mike, thanks for this tip. I might try them out if nothing else
> is suggested and I'll get back to you then.


This is interesting. I downloaded the 45M driver(s) from HP's site
in case I wanted to install it. Then I checked my install size in the
Program Add/Remove section of XP.
It said 45M !!!

When I did the install yesterday it said a full install was 700 MB.
I unchecked all of the software boxes except for the one that said
this was essential.
The 'essential' box said it was 200 MB.

So now I'm not sure how to proceed. I didn't check the file size of my
c: drive before I installed the drivers.

[This followup was posted to comp.periphs.printers and a copy was sent
to the cited author.]

In article <a74d9c14-ffc2-4141-98e8-44402f2cb222
@m3g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>, google3luo359@yahoo.com says...
> If you let HP do the default 'driver' install, you lose 700 MB of disk
> space. That's obscene.
> Pare that down to the 'required files' and you stand to lose 200 MB
> disk space.
>
> Can anyone here tell me what are the absolute minimum files/drivers
> required to get this printer/scanner to work?
>
> I'm hoping for something in the range of 10-20 MB disk space (max.).
> Even that seems large.

Look on the HP site for 'corporate' drivers. They usually just support
the basic printer features.

The full 700M includes all the photo editing, photo management,
continous memory-hogging managing (warning you if the ink is low, out of
paper, etc...)

Don't always believe the file sizes shown in Add/Remove programs.

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On Apr 17, 4:46 pm, Andrew Rossmann
>
> Look on the HP site for 'corporate' drivers. They usually just support
> the basic printer features.
>
> The full 700M includes all the photo editing, photo management,
> continous memory-hogging managing (warning you if the ink is low, out of
> paper, etc...)
>
> Don't always believe the file sizes shown in Add/Remove programs.


Thanks Andy for your help! I really appreciate it.