Product Information and Features

The drivers included in this installation are designed to support most HP DeskWriter Series printers. These drivers allow you to take advantage of all HP DeskWriter printer features while running the QuickDraw GX printing extension under System 7.1 or later.

ColorSmart™
ColorSmart makes it easy for you to produce high-quality color output when using any HP DeskWriter series printer. When you select print, ColorSmart automatically adjusts the print settings for great looking output whether you are printing color or grayscale.

To override ColorSmart’s automatic settings, select HP Options in the More Choices area of the Print dialog box. Use the pull down menus to select alternative settings for Intensity, Halftoning, Bleed Control, and Color Matching (some of these settings may not be available for your printer). Refer to the Balloon Help for more information on these settings.

System Requirements

Operating System: System 7.5 and QuickDraw GX 1.0

Processor: At least a 68030 or Power PC

Memory: Minimum of 8 Mb (12 Mb is recommended)

Hard Disk Space:  Minimum of 10 Mb available

Differences Between HP QuickDraw and HP QuickDraw GX Printer Drivers

Print Cartridge Maintenance
Perform print cartridge maintenance from the "Printing Menu" when your desktop printer is selected.

Print... and Page Setup...
The print and page setup dialog boxes in QuickDraw GX applications are different from the ones in QuickDraw applications. Both QuickDraw GX and QuickDraw applications will work with the HP QuickDraw GX printer drivers.

Custom Page Setup
QuickDraw GX allows you to apply different print settings to each page. This is done through the Custom Page Setup dialog box.

TrueType 2.0 Font Support
Both TrueType 1.0 and 2.0 fonts can be used with QuickDraw GX. The fonts that ship with the HP DeskWriter Series printer driver are TrueType 1.0. These fonts work with QuickDraw GX, but in order to take advantage of the unique QuickDraw GX font features, you need to use TrueType 2.0 fonts.

Desktop Printers
QuickDraw GX allows you to choose more than one printer and create a desktop printer for each one.  When printing from a QuickDraw GX application, you can select any of the desktop printers from the pop-up menu in print dialog box.  When printing from QuickDraw applications, you must select the desktop printer first and then, from the "printing" menu, select "set default printer".  The default printer has a black border around its desktop icon.

Print Job Status
To monitor printer status, double click the desktop printer icon.  The dialog box will allow you to view print jobs in the queue, stop printing, change the print job order, pause printing, or remove a print job.

Background Printing
QuickDraw GX always prints in the background.

Problems During Printing
If a problem occurs during printing, the desktop printer (DTP) icon will have a yellow warning sign on top of it. You can view the description of the alert by clicking on the DTP icon.