Re: [hpoj-devel] new I/O driver coming soon (second try)

[Judd M. <ju...@jp...>]

"Robert G. Brown" wrote:
> 
> (Sorry about the semi-rant, but this is a moderately serious problem and
> HP needs to become aware of it and direct some resources to it -- I
> cannot even recommend their printer/scanner to most of my friends at
> this point on the basis of the quality I've been able to achieve with
> 20-40 hours of my own time invested.  This is in the "not ready for
> linux prime time" category and very definitely is costing them sales.)
> 

Yes, it is costing them sales.  I just bought my G95 after reading the
hpoj sourceforge website and the HP website.  I thought this was a
fairly well supported printer.  It certainly wasn't inexpensive.  I'm
currently using the ghostscript cdj970 driver and it just isn't
acceptable.  What is even more agrivating is that I also have some
margin issues in Linux and Windows.  I usually never use technical
support, but decided to try HP.  I told them I was using Linux and
Windows.  I got the typical "We don't support Linux" answer and was
asked more questions.  The next email from them was basically blowing me
off and not bothering to answer my problems with the margins.

I'm about ready to send the printer back and I'm sure a returned sale
costs more than a lost sale.

Are there any drivers out there that are better than the cdj970 and/or
ghostscript?  I really want to make this work if possible.

Judd