Since more than 40 years there are HP printers that are connected to Apple computers. It is a simple thing: Some document is in the computer, it should get printed on paper. Happened in this specific Apple/HP combination many billions of times. HP’s market cap is around 35,470,000,000 dollars right now. That of Apple is 3,400,000,000,000.
Two devices connecting for this super simple thing. Should be easy in 2024.
IT IS NOT.
Fucking not.
The latest macOS Sonoma 15.1 will not work reliably with the HP Color LaserJet Pro 4202dn.
Printing a document multiple times will only work when you open the print dialog as many times and print one page.
The printer insists that it wants to double-sided print.
I spent hours with this. Tried everything. It did not work out of the box. Neither does it now.
Again: All I want is to print a simple text document.
Enshitification.
Here it is not intended. But infuriating. I love my MacBook Pro. The design for the HP printer I personally like. The hardware of it seems to be built right. But the software that moves the data to the printer does not work with the software of the printer. A task that should be solved since more than 40 years.