Re: HP 500 Deskjet Printer

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

In message <Pine LNX 3 95 971002090305 18172A-100000 bf_jearl baf com>,Jason Ea
rl writes:
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>On Thu, 2 Oct 1997, Lord of the Elves wrote:
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>> 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 poo
>r
>> 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.
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>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).
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>> Has anyone out their succesfully configured one of these printers? It's a
>> fairly "standard" make, but I cant "make" it work.
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>I ran into the same problem.  The printer would even work with Slackware
>(but who wants to use Slackware).
>

Yes... I have just upgraded ghostscript and also upgraded the print-tool and 
all
of the associated dependents (to the Redhat 4.2 versions) . 
The new print tool comes with a specific HP500 
Deskjet driver, and this seems to be working just fine.

Many thanks to all respondents --

Donovan
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