HP550C Driver
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Does anyone know about a printer driver for the Hewlett Packard 550C ??
I really could use one, and I know one exists for pagestream, I don't use
it. I need a preferences printer driver, like for the HPL4.
Thanks.
Jack
Hi Jack,
A workmate has a 500C, I presume they're at least a bit similar. I'll
have a chat with him on your behalf and get back.
Steve the G. [BEDFORDSHIRE, UK]
Steve–
I am using the 500C driver now. The difference is that the 500c is three
color, i.e. RGB. The 550C is four color. It carries RGB and black. What
is happening with the 500C driver is that black is not being used. It is
only performing a three color process and it is capable of four. I need a
dedicated 550C driver.
Jack
Jack,
DJ550C.lha is in the Soft-Logic library(lib 15) on AmigaVendor
// .An Ameoba on AutoPilot 🙂
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Mark–
Oh thanks to you! Will check with the wonderful catalog command.
Autopilot is wonderful, hmmm?
Jack.
Mark–
Just downloaded the Printer Driver. Does it work only for pagestream?? I
need a preferences driver.
Jack (Questioning)
Jack,
I have a prefs driver for the 500C called SUPER DJ500C. I think it prints
out much better than the ones online. It is only about 7500k. I will send
it to you through Mail if you like…
Jonathan Schmidt – Whappin' from CompuServe Land!
Jonathan,
If you could, that would be great! I am willing to try anything to get
better printing from the 550C.
Jack
I'll send it to ya ASAP. I don't know how much better it will be for the
550C but it might help anyway… look for it in your mail box.
Dear Jonathan,
I have a Deskjet 500C for which I use the DJ500C driver from the library
here on CIS.
If you have a more efficient driver please could you send me a copy.
Thanks,
Greg
Uh-oh. Looks like a lot of people might be wanting this. I'll just have
to Lharc it and upload it here. I'll do that today. I'm not sure if it is
more efficient but you may have noticed that colors like dark blue, really
dark red, and green all come out something like a black color. I think
this driver changes the scale a bit. I think it more accurately represents
the colors on the screen. As far as being faster or anything, I haven't
noticed. I don't know if it employs compression or anything.
If you need any more info, let me know!
Jon
Jonathan,
Yes, indeedy. Lots of folks are looking forward to a 550C driver, so
that blacks will be black. Me included!
Karl
Karl: Does the HP550C require a special type of paper, or can you use say,
ordinary or thick typewriter paper with it (in B&W mode)?
I have been hesitiating for years on replacing my Daisy Wheel printer… I
would like to have one that allow me to use the graphic capabilities of
the Amy….
— Dave
Dave;
I have the HP500C which is quite similar (indeed I believe that the only
difference is that the 550 has both print head mounted at once so that it
does not try to make "black" with the three colors — something that does
not work).
I find that the printer works well with very high quality laser paper.
The best image quality is from paper designed specifically for the printer
however.
I doing only B&W work, Weyerhauser "First Choice" provides an image that
actually is difficult to distinguish from a laser printer output. The
easy way to tell is still to hit the paper with a drop of water! The ink
will still run. Indeed, I have trouble believing that people get away
with using a DeskJet for envelopes.
-bill
Bill,
I just got a 550C. I neglected to also buy paper for it so I spent an
hour or so stripping the edges and manually bursting about 1000 sheets of
20# laser perf tractor feed paper. So far (after printing about 500
pages) it works well, altho I do get 2 pages fed into the printer about
every 20 pages. I do need to get good paper for the loading problem, but,
the black output on this paper is _very_ good. I can't see any
splattering or spreading of the ink — it looks like laser output. I
tried doing some graphic dumps — if they are of the low color saturation
variety (like you'd probably get if you did a dump of the workbench
screen) the output was great. If it had lots of saturated colors, that
particular paper made the output look muddy. The manual recommends the
usage of Desk Jet clay coated paper for color graphics output.
I never purchased the original Desk Jet because when I first saw it a few
years back, I got a sample printout from it — 30 minutes or so later I
took the printout outside with me — it was lightly sprinkling. The page
got damp and the ink smeared all over the place. With the 550C, I notice
that immediately after the page is printed the ink is still damp and will
smear. However, it appears the once it is completely dry there is little
to no smearing if it gets wet. As as test, I just dumped a bit of coffee
onto a page I printed yesterday then used a rag to wipe (not blot) it off.
The paper is now coffee stained but the text did not smear.
-sja
Dave –
The 550C does not REQUIRE any special paper, but you will notice a lot of
variation in quality of text depending on characteristics of the paper, as
indeed you would with ANY ink-jet printer.
I have noticed that some copier paper seems to make for slightly fuzzy
text, while other copier paper leaves it looking laser-printed. There are
LOTS of specialty products for graphic printing.
. . . . JimDoc, on AutoPilot
Dave,
Since the 500C and 550C are inkjet, paper with high "rag" content, i.e.
lots of cotton fiber, allows the wet ink to "travel" along the fibers, out
from where it's supposed to stay put. This give a very fuzzy appearance
and generally looks terrible. However, copier paper works just dandy,
methinks, for regular text printing. You will also get OK color output on
it, but it really screams when printed on special clay-based paper, like
that made specifically for the printer by HP. I thought, Bah! I have some
left over from my Okimate 20 thermal transfer. Yeah, it looked better than
on the copier paper, but certainly not as good as on the HP paper
(HP51630Y, "formerly PaintJet paper"). I don't think real thick bond paper
would look very good, but I haven't tried it, since I don't have any.
Karl
Jonathan –
> I have a prefs driver for the 500C called SUPER DJ500C.
. . . . .
> I will send it to you through Mail if you like…
I am sure you are trying to be helpful, but IF (and ONLY IF) this is the
Super_DJC driver marketed commercially by Creative Focus, then what you
are offering to do is PIRACY and THEFT.
If it is merely a driver offered as freely redistributable by its author,
that happens to SOUND like the Creative Focus driver, then I apologize in
advance.
. . . . JimDoc, on AutoPilot
I don't know who wrote it. I got it from my local dealer free of charge.
It is therefore probably just sounding like the one you are speaking of.
It is possible to name a driver whatever you like, you know!
I sense some mean vibes comin' from your aura… man.
Well, he _has_ reason……
You may want to read the file in something like NewZap (or Azap in the
libs here) to see if there is a copyright notice in it. If it ain't C='s,
you may want to get things straightened out with your dealer. Heck, he may
have gotten the driver and not been informed of it's origins. After a
driver has circulated a bit, people may forget just _where_ it came from.
// Brian — Cruising on AutoPilot…..
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If it _is_ C='s, it is a beta test driver and not for public release.
Jonathan –
Sorry about the vibes. Look in whatever docs came with the driver to see
if "Creative Focus" or "Gerald Hull" are mentioned. Your innocence doesn't
necessarily mean your dealer knows what he's about — it wouldn't be the
first time one gave away something the author meant to be sold.
. . . . JimDoc, on AutoPilot
All I got was the driver. I don't know if there is a way to check it or
not…
Jonathan,
You can use the TYPE command to check for the info.
Type path:directory/filename OPT H
This will type out the file in hexadecimal on one side of the screen and
you'll see the ASCII characters on the right side.
A [CTRL] [C] on keyboard will break the typing.
A nice little CLI ONLY program I use and is in the libraries here is
called Strings.
In AmigaUser Lib:15
STRING.LZH/Bin Bytes: 6820, Count: 29, 22-May-91 Last:27-Nov-92
Title : STRINGS.LZH
Keywords: ASCII FIND TEXT STRINGS
This little CLI command will search through any file, binary or text and
display all the ASCII text character strings in it. It's great for finding
those revision numbers or text strings in programs. Its output can be
redirected to a file for editing. The argument line is simple, first put
in your C: directory, The command STRINGS C:STRINGS would then search
itself. Usage : strings [-nxxx] [-o] [+o] filelist
Chris
Hi Jack,
I've spoken to my friend, and the driver he is happiest with purportedly
comes from Commodore! The reason he likes it so much is that there were
some instructions with it that explain how to set up the various
preferences gadgets (like threshold, etc) to get the best effects. Reds now
actually print out as red!. He tells me the driver is 9092 bytes long. This
looks suspiciously the same length as the Commodore printer driver that is
on my V2.1 AND V3.0 disks.
I don't have any 2.04 disks easily available, so I presume there are no
drivers at all for the HP deskjet on them?
Steve the G. [BEDFORDSHIRE, UK]