HP 500 Deskjet Printer

[Lord of the Elves <elflord pegasus rutgers edu>]

Hello all. 

I'm running RedHat 4.1.
I have received a fairly generous offer of a HP 500 deskjet, 
almost a give-away, I told my friend I'd take it if it worked on linux. It 
should, and the "print text page" 
(running it from control panel) works, but the postscript prints at very poor
quality (ie it's vaguely legible, but not very good). I've tried the 500 and
500c drivers. The 500c drivers print nonsense when I run the postscript
test. The driver for HP 500 (I think it's listed as HP Deskjet plus) 
gives decipherable but very poor quality output.

Has anyone out their succesfully configured one of these printers? It's a
fairly "standard" make, but I cant "make" it work.

Thanks.

-- Donovan