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Yeah, I've found the Commdore supplied driver (for the HP DJ500C) pretty good too. They took pretty good advantage of the 'features' of the printer; made it easy to control via the threshold and density settings too. Re speed. I commonly print about 6"x4" (or less) printouts from ADPro, of 768×480 24bit source, and they print in a few minutes. Four or five at the most. Smaller take a lot less time, of course. I've used the DJ500C PageStream driver, but so far only to add 'spot' color to otherwise b&w output. Frankly, I don't see much use for the DP500C involving PgS, since all the text would really be the dark green, rather than BLACK. The way I've used it so far is to print the doc in b&w, and then overprint the spot color I wanted. Alignment hasn't been any serious problem yet. Now, the machine I'm using is a 28mzh 68030, with fast ram. I'd expect ADPro or PgS to take longer to print if you had a stock amiga. But certainly not hours. Weird. If you use PgS and any Deskjet, then there is a program you should be aware of. It's called 'FastJet'. Shareware (freeware?), it should be avail here on CIS. If not, let me know and I'll upload it for you. FastJet speeds up printing to the DJ several times, by using the data compressing that the DJ understands. The way I use FastJet with PgS is to 1) print the document to disk, using the Deskjet driver, 2) then send that file to the DJ using FastJet. Much faster than printing direct from within PgS. I haven't used it yet with the color driver, but would expect it to work. Good luck. –jp–seattle–