Re: New HP Printers...?
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> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am looking at buying a new printer, and had my eyes on a HP DeskJet
> > 710C, which I would definitely have bought if I only ran Windows.
>
I wrote:
> The 710C is a Windows printer. Someone hacked together a driver that
> works very well for black and white for the 710, 720, 820 and 1000
> (which use very similar protocols), see http://www.httptech.com/ppa/.
> Apparently there is an experimental color driver that is available if
> you subscribe to the developers list.
>
> I got this printer partly beyond my control. If I had to choose a
> printer, I would make sure there were good gs drivers for it available.
Just in case anyone is interested. I looked again at it, and
apparently the pnm2ppa driver that should supply color support for
these printers is well on it's way to a productive state. I am going to
test it soon. See http://sourceforge.net/project/?group_id=1322.
Still I wouldn't really advocate buying this printer for linux as long
as HP is effectively keeping the protocol it uses a secret.
Eric
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E.L. Meijer (tgakem@chem.tue.nl)
Eindhoven Univ. of Technology
Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (SKA)
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