Re: New HP Printers...?
Has any one been able to use the HP DeskJet 694C.
At 20:13 01/19/2000 -0500, Joe Bouchard wrote:
>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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