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Other potential "solutions" Reader Ric Getter notes that the HP Communications daemon is only necessary to use the printer's front panel buttons, so it's possible to disable the daemon completely: This is only a problem when the scanner is invoked.
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One then has to trash the scanner software because it won't quit and then restart it. When the scanner software is rerun, it will restart the process, but then fail to find the restarted process. The solution is to use the Activity Monitor to trash the HP Communications process. HP is now aware of this and is working on it. If the scan function is used and then the printer is disconnected or turned off, the HP Communications process will go nuts trying to find the missing scanner and consume all of the available CPU in the process.
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"The 1210 drivers do indeed have a problem. Reader George Schreyer writes that HP is aware of the issue, and reports that the problem is much worse when attempting to use the scanning function of HP multifunction devices: and finally reissuing the print request." This requires deleting the job, starting HP Comm. I must also restart it myself (I put it on the dock, since it's normally buried) before issuing any print commands, or the print job stalls and won't ever recover. My (annoying) workaround is simply to use Activity Monitor to force quit HP Communications after each use of the printer.
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If I unplug the printer, the processor usage jumps to about 25%, but then settles back down to around 15% quickly. For me, on an iBook 500MHz dual USB, 512MB RAM HP Communications starts at boot time and takes 10-15% of my CPU at all times. "I have experienced the sluggish performance of the HP Communications application ever since I got my HP Photosmart 7350 more than a year ago.
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Wordarounds Readers are often stuck using awkward workarounds to avoid the HP Communications daemon from eventually taking up too much CPU time. I've learned to keep the Activity Monitor utility running constantly in the dock just to keep an eye on the 'HP Communications' daemon's CPU usage." The situation gets worse if you turn off the printer after unplugging the USB cable and then re-plugging the cable.
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I have a PSC2210 multi-function HP printer with the latest driver and a 15" Titanium Powerbook running OS X 10.3.4. In all cases, upgrading to the latest version of OS X doesn't fix the problem, contrary to Apple's Knowledge Base article, perhaps indicating that the problems discussed here are are slightly different from those described in the article, or that whatever "fix" was made in OS X 10.2.3 is not present in OS X 10.3.x. We've since received a significant number of reports from readers confirming this issue. We also noted a recently updated Apple Knowledge Base article about this problem that claims the issue only occurs in OS X 10.2.2 and that upgrading to 10.2.3 or later should fix the problem. Yesterday we covered reports of "sluggish" computer performance after installing certain HP printer drivers specifically, the "HP Communications" daemon appears to increase its CPU use as time goes by, requiring the user to force quit it.