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- From: baseball@catch-the-fever.scd.ucar.edu (Gregg Walters)
- Subject: Re: Need HP Desk-Jet 500c driver
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.201103.27993@ncar.ucar.edu>
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- Organization: Scientific Computing Divison/NCAR Boulder, CO
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- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 20:11:03 GMT
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- In Article: 4586 of comp.os.ms-windows.apps,
- tibor@server.uwindsor.ca (TORONYI TIBOR ) asked >>
-
- >> Subject: Need HP Desk-Jet 500c driver
-
- >> The line says it all. I need an HP DeskJet 500c driver for WIN3.1
-
- >> If not can somebody point to where I could get one. OR the number for HP to see
- >> if one will be available.
-
- You may already have what you need. I recently got the HP500C myself, and
- here's what I did to get the driver installed (hope I'm remembering all this
- correctly) -
-
- In your Control Panel, click on the Printers icon.
- Click on the Install button, scroll through the list to the bottom and
- choose "other" - DONT choose the HP driver from this list, I think I
- tried this and got stuck without the color capabilities.
- * You will then be asked to insert the floppy containing the manufacturer's
- driver (which do predate Windows 3.1, but be patient)
- After this you will be asked to insert Windows 3.1 Disk #5 (or was it 6?)
- Finally, Windows will show that it has added "HP Desk Jet ver 2.0".
- Make this your default printer. Go through all your non-Windows
- applications and select HP500C. If not available choose HP Desk Jet
- Series. If not available choose HP Laser Jet. If not available ??
- Some of my DOS apps won't drive the color capability of the HP500C.
- A work-around for a color screen print is to run the DOS app in a
- window, with a PIF that gives Windows control of the PrtScrn key.
- When you hit PrtScrn, the screen will be copied to the Clipboard,
- from which you can -
- 1) paste into Windows Paintbrush, then print
- 2) use an applet to print directly from the Clipboard (my PrintClip
- will only do text 8-( but there are others...)
-
- * Part of this process will write some HP scalable fonts to your hard disk.
- If you do a DIR in C:\WINDOWS (or maybe it is C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM) the True
- Type font files will appear in pairs (.FOT and .TTF, one is for the screen,
- the other for the printer). The HP files come in trios, and have cryptic
- 5 or 6 digit names. The "extra" small file has a ".PTM" extension. I'm
- uncertain about the function of the .PTM files. Anyway, if you click on
- the Fonts icon in the Control Panel, and ask Windows to install all the
- fonts it finds on your hard disk, when done you can view them. I thought
- that the HP fonts (Courier, CG Times, and Univers) were redundant with
- what I already had, and since these things devour disk space and slow
- down Windows boots, I scrubbed them.
-
- I did not need to contact HP or MS to get the driver - I already had it.
-
- Hope this helps. If you need more help, E-mail me.
-
- If in the past you've been working with a 9-pin like me, you are really
- going to have fun with the HP500C. Much better graphics and near laser
- quality text. Watch out for graphics with large areas of solid colors.
- The ink may make the paper wrinkle, meaning you need a better paper. I haven't
- solved this yet, but haven't spent much time experimenting either...
-
- It would be nice, within a word processor, to select a color for the text,
- or for ranges of text (e.g. as in some Bibles where the words of Christ are
- printed in red) but the only way I know to do this within a graphics app
- like Paintbrush, and that's kind of clumsy for large documents...
- I just got Word for Windows direct from MS, and am hoping to find this
- feature.
-