Re: New HP Printers...?
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> 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
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> 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.
This surprises me somewhat. I found that black and white printing from
linux with pbm2ppa on a 710 is really fast. I have a PII 266MHz/64MB
system, and mostly print TeX output from linux. Do you have a much
slower processor, or is it netscape performance that slows it down?
The color version I recently tried seemed to be working, although I have
to look into gamma settings and getting it to eject pages properly.
This is really slow, as it is in Windows.
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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