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- From: jsa@rcinet (JEFF S. ANDREWS)
- Subject: HP550C Printer Drivers
- Message-ID: <5JAN199311512496@rcinet>
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- Keywords: HP, Printer, DeskJet, Driver, 550C, HP550C, Color
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- Organization: United Technologies Research Center
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 16:51:00 GMT
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- OK, I broke down and bought the new HP550C color/black ink-jet printer.
- This is an excellent printer for the price. So far, I have been trying
- print utilities, searching for the one that I won't be able to live
- without. The most impressive seems to be Greg Wageman's PRINTALL utility,
- but that was only written with drivers for the HP500/HP500C. What I'm
- trying to get at is the difference in the abilities of the 500C and the
- 550C. The 550C can print from the black ink cartridge and the color ink
- cartridge at the same time. (The 500C could only use one cartridge at a
- time). Thus, the 550C color printouts need not have the pseudo-black
- patches where real black ought to be. Also, better dark shades could be
- made by mixing a real black and Red/Blue/Yellow, as needed. In the clone
- world, drivers are already available to do this. Is someone out there
- knowledgable enough to come up with such a driver for atari users? Short
- of that, does anyone know Greg Wageman that might see if he could be
- persuaded to indulge in such a project? I think I saw where he had done
- something for Oki printers, so he may not have done the 500C stuff just
- because it was what he personally was using. Who knows... Since I am
- probably not the only person with an atari and a 550C, it would be nice
- to see postings here about any 550C specific atari drivers that come into
- existence (or already exist). Thanks.
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