Re: HP 500 Deskjet Printer

[Jason Earl <jearl baf com>]

On Thu, 2 Oct 1997, Lord of the Elves wrote:

> 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.

Have you tried upgrading ghostscript.  The one that RedHat ships with does
not do a very good job with the older deskjets (I couldn't read a thing on
my deskjet plus).  Grab the newest rpm and see if that helps (I bet it
will).

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

I ran into the same problem.  The printer would even work with Slackware
(but who wants to use Slackware).

> Thanks.

Good Luck;
Jason Earl