#HP Deskjet 550C
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We just received today at store a brand new HP Deskjet 550 color printer
that is the replacement for the old HP Deskjet 500C which had to mix
colors to make the black color in colors pictures. At least HP realised
his error and released le 550C which now have separate Color and Black
cartridges at the same time for printing. But big was my deception when I
tried the Commodore Workbench 2.0/3.0 HP Deskjet printer driver which
wasn't able to acces the second (black) cartdridge of this brand new
printer… even bigger was my deception when I saw that both MacIntosh and
Windows drivers were included in the box from HP but not the Commodore
Amiga based one… what are they waiting to support the Amiga? Is the
Amiga a that small market form them???
If anybody finds a trick to tell any Amiga driver to use both the Balck
and the Color ink cartridge at the same time please tell me!
Pat,
I am not sure, since I haven't seen the source code to the DJ driver, but
since the 500C used yellow/magenta/cyan (PCC_YMC) to get all the colors,
the printer driver was built with this in mind. It should be possible to
build a driver that uses yellow/magenta/cyan/black(PCC_YMCB), since this
too is a legitimate color class for the printer driver.
Just checked the includes closer, and there is another category called
PCC_YMC_BW which is most likely the color class used in the DJ – this
class means yellow/magenta/cyan OR black&white.
The Amiga does appear to be too small a market for HP, or most any other
printer manufacturer, to make Amiga drivers. You will most likely have to
wait for CBM to make a new driver.
73, Kelly