[hpoj-devel] Re: [hpoj-announce] new HP inkjet print drivers

[Joe P. <joe...@sn...>]

On Monday 26 March 2001 07:33 pm, PASCHAL,DAVID (HP-Roseville,ex1) wrote:

> Hi,
>
> HP today released new ghostscript print drivers for selected DeskJet
> printers at http://hpinkjet.sourceforge.net.  The news brief is attached to
> the end of this message.
>
> I haven't yet had a chance to test these drivers with the OfficeJets, but I
> did update the "supported devices" page
> (http://hpoj.sourceforge.net/suplist.shtml) to reflect which drivers I
> think should work with which OfficeJets.  In the meantime, the adventurous
> may feel free to try it out and report their experiences/problems to the
> hpoj-devel mailing list.  :-)  However, general (non-OfficeJet-specific)
> questions and problems with these drivers may be better suited for the
> help/discussion forums on the hpinkjet project, since I was not involved
> with this development effort.
>
> Note that the OfficeJet Pro 1150C/1170C/1175C are not supported by the new
> drivers at this time, but from my experience the cdj850 driver seems to
> give better print quality than the cdj550 driver on these models.
>

I tried two of the new print drivers with my OfficeJet 600. Both the 'plain' 
and the 'photo' drivers are a great improvement over the older DeskJet driver 
I was using.

The 'photo' driver works on the 600, but according to its description, is not 
really intended for this printer. Using it with the 600 and plain paper, the 
print quality seemed the same as that from the 'plain' driver. 

The two drivers I tested:
HP-developed DeskJet 600C series
HP-developed DeskJet 600C series photo

In printtool, I used the following options:

Suppress Headers
Send EOF
Fix Stair-stepping text
Fast text printing
Extra gs options: (None necessary, but I may try to change the gamma later. 
The image output (to me) seems a little light.)
 

-- 
Joe