Re: Printers and XyWrite (HP DeskJet)

["J. R. Fox" jr_fox@xxxxxxxxxx]

Peregrine@xxxxxxx wrote:

> Paul writes:
> ≪ My experience is that newer Deskjets work generally on the older Deskjet
> drivers (e.g. hpdj500.prn) but not all features of newer printers may be
> controlled unless you add code for them. What problems are you having,
> exactly?
> Regards,
> Paul Ambos
> pambos@xxxxxxxx ≫
>
> Daniel Say's earlier response gave me a lot of information to digest, and I
> downloaded the newer driver (hpdj660c.prn), which acts about the same as the
> old (hpdj550.prn) with my HP DeskJet 720C.
>
> The problem is that the file will print (after a considerable wait of a
> minute or more), but it prints a couple of lines and then spits out the page,
> prints a couple more, and so on. A maddening waste of paper, just trying to
> troubleshoot it, so I suppose that's why I gave up long ago. I'd love to
> resolve this.
>
> Could this call for some minor revision within the printer file or my default
> settings? I'd be willing to set up Ghostscript if necessary, but maybe that
> is not necessary for basic printing of draft copies (which is all I really
> need from XyWrite these days).

My father has been successfully driving an HP DJ-840C (probably not one of the
most current models in the line) with Xy-3 and (an unmodified) Xy-3 driver for
the DJ-500 series. I have done the same at that location with Xy-4 and a
4-series driver for the HP-DJ, which is circa at least a couple years later. I
can find out the specific driver names for you easily enough. While I'm sure
these Xy-drivers could be adjusted for better results with the later DeskJets --
given a good HP reference containing the relevant control codes -- the results in
both these cases were pretty good. We only noted one anomaly: an extra page
printing at the end of each print job, which consisted of just one brief line of
PCL gobbledygook in the upper left corner. I believe an explanation & cure for
this anomaly has been mentioned here more than once in the past, though I have no
record of it.

Jordan