Re: New HP Printers...?

[Joe Bouchard <jpb@cybertours.com>]

On Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 04:48:05PM +0100, E.L. Meijer Eric" wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > 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

Hi,

I have an HP820Cse on one computer, and it's a Windows only printer as
described above.  I use a pbm2ppa driver, but if you print 2 pages from
netscape it takes 90% of the cpu for about 2 minutes.  In other words
it's a real performace pig (it's a pig in windows too).  In all fairness
it does a really nice job, but I wouldn't buy one today.

My theory is that some of the HP printers have the words:
"HP Deskjet xxx
 For Windows"
written right on the front of the printer, and these are the ones to avoid.

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Thank you,
Joe Bouchard

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