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HP550C Printer Drivers

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From: JEFF S. ANDREWS
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 16:51
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OK, I broke down and bought the new HP550C color/black ink-jet printer.
This is an excellent printer for the price.  So far, I have been trying
print utilities, searching for the one that I won't be able to live 
without.  The most impressive seems to be Greg Wageman's PRINTALL utility,
but that was only written with drivers for the HP500/HP500C.  What I'm
trying to get at is the difference in the abilities of the 500C and the
550C.  The 550C can print from the black ink cartridge and the color ink
cartridge at the same time.  (The 500C could only use one cartridge at a
time).  Thus, the 550C color printouts need not have the pseudo-black
patches where real black ought to be.  Also, better dark shades could be
made by mixing a real black and Red/Blue/Yellow, as needed.  In the clone
world, drivers are already available to do this.  Is someone out there
knowledgable enough to come up with such a driver for atari users?  Short
of that, does anyone know Greg Wageman that might see if he could be
persuaded to indulge in such a project?  I think I saw where he had done
something for Oki printers, so he may not have done the 500C stuff just
because it was what he personally was using.  Who knows...   Since I am
probably not the only person with an atari and a 550C, it would be nice
to see postings here about any 550C specific atari drivers that come into
existence (or already exist).  Thanks.
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Subject: HP550C Printer Drivers
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Keywords:  HP, Printer, DeskJet, Driver, 550C, HP550C, Color
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Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 16:51:00 GMT
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