Re: HP 500 Deskjet Printer

["Stephen P. Molnar" <smolnar postbox acs ohio-state edu>]

Reach out to HP and  grab the HP DeskJet 500 Series Driver 6.5.9.  Then
install Apsfilter.  If that doesn't solve your printer problems, I would
suggest that you use the printer as a boat anchor (iconic grin at this
point).  I've been using this configuration since the very early Slackware
days and currently have RedHat 4.1 and 4.2 partitions.

At 09:16 AM 10/2/1997 -0600, you wrote:
>
>
>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
>
>
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