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- From: tamu@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Todd Henderson)
- Subject: New beta HP DeskJet printer drivers!
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 15:32:21 GMT
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- Over the weekend I found out about, and down loaded the new beta drivers
- for the HP DeskJet line of printers up to the 550C.
-
- The first thing that should be said is THANK YOU. I did not see any names
- or such, but I hope you read the net.
-
- The second thing is comments. I assume, since these are beta drivers, the
- programmers would like feedback, so here goes.(No criticsm intended, the work
- is greatly appreciated.)
-
-
- 1. The 550c was included as a device, but some of the functunality
- (at least it's best feature, the ability to use
- both a black and color cartridge at once) is not included. I assume this
- is due to the recent release of the 550c and that it was included in the
- driver at the last minute. Too me this is a sign that there are plans
- to support it. I look forward to future beta/regular releases of the
- driver.
-
- 2. Most of the printer drivers ask if you would like to install a windows
- version of the driver. This one did not. In general this should not
- be a concern since most people probably have the windows driver that came
- with the printer, but at least for me the driver HP supplied for windows
- does not agree with win-os2+AMI PRO and more than one page of color.
-
- 3. I found a picture in Draw for OS/2 that does not print correctly on my
- setup. In this picture, there is a filled rectangle that when printed is
- only filled up to the diagonal. If the authors of the driver would like
- the sample I would be more than happy to make it available to them.
- (This was Draw for OS/2 from Micrografx) If I selected the rectangle
- for printing, i.e. 'print selection' it printed fine, but if I printed
- the entire page it messed it up, along with some of the other graphics.
-
- 4. The color gradients are not as smooth for the OS/2 beta driver as they
- are with the windows 550c driver(when it works). When printing the same
- picture in Draw for Windows using the Windows driver and Draw for OS/2
- using the new driver, the Windows driver gives a smoother change(gradient)
- from one color/shade to another. I haven't tried all of the settings, but
- I did use presentation quality for both.
-
- 5. Overall, I applaud(sp??) the new drivers. They seem to be stable and
- have improved the black printing tremendously. Anyone who has a DeskJet
- would probably be well served to get the beta drivers. They make me
- believe that IBM is listening to the net and the concerns of the users
- because this was a weak point for many of us.
- (I just wish HP's 550c drivers were as stable under win-os2, the 500c
- HP drivers worked great.)
-
-
-
- The drivers are on watson, I have forgotten what directory. I would like to
- hear comments from other people using the new drivers. Also, I would like
- to hear from anyone else with a 550c concerning how it works with the HP
- drivers in win-os2.
-
- Thanks,
-
- Todd
- tamu@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu
- 550C
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