Re: HP 500 Deskjet Printer

[Thomas Ribbrock <ribbrock nmrc ucc ie>]

Lord of the Elves writes:
> 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.

Hm - I'm not sure if it works at all, but have you tried the 550
driver? The 550 is colour, all right, but maybe the driver works for
the 500 in b&w as well (I remember that most of the 5x0 series printer
are reasonably similar to each other, so it might be worth a try). At
least it's giving excellent results on the 550.

Just a shot in the dark,

Thomas

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