It isn’t. I have no problems with Panasonic’s PCL drivers for example.
But as fuzzyfungus mentioned, HP’s firmware and drivers have earned a bad reputation.
I remember one case back in the '90s where their printer driver would flip the processor from 32-bit into 16-bit mode… and leave it that way.
Or when they finally released Windows 2000 drivers for some of their scanners.I ran the installer… and that was the only time I’ve had to reinstall an OS from scratch. (Others had the same thing happen. HP published a note saying “Oh yeah, it does that. We’ll release a new version in a while.”
