pacolley@violet.uwaterloo.ca (Paul Colley) (04/14/91)
I've got a DVI driver for my HP DeskJet 500, but it doesn't work. Could somebody either: - Tell me what incredibly stupid thing I'm doing wrong, OR - Send me a working driver? This is for Xenix 2.3.2 on a 80386. Thanks! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ For those who want to try the first option, here's the gruesome details: The driver "dvidj" was Emailed to me by a helpful person some time ago, but I didn't get my printer until Thursday this week. It looks like the driver is from the "Beebe" set of drivers. The symptom: The letters are mangled. After some fiddling and playing and thinking... Consider the letter "A". As you look accross a row it goes black, white, black,... the problem is the sizes of the white spaces are wrong, each larger by some semi-constant amount (maybe 1/8th of an inch), so that the character gets sliced into pieces and distribued over a horizontal area much larger than it should For example, a "I" gets printed almost perfectly (except for the spacing caused by the little ``hooks'' (kerns?) on the edges of the top and bottom bar), but an "M" looks like it was chopped up with a food processor. Compliing with both CC and GCC give identical results, and getting font files from a known good source doesn't help, so I think it's the dvidj program. I've looked through the code, but can't see anything wrong. Thanks for any help, - Paul Colley pacolley@violet.waterloo.edu or .ca ...!watmath!violet!pacolley "Quantum Mechanics: The dreams stuff is made of" - Ken Burnside
bhepple@Asia.Sun.Com (Bob Hepple - Sun Asia Mktg) (04/17/91)
In article <1991Apr13.190511.15438@watdragon.waterloo.edu>, pacolley@violet (Paul Colley) writes: >I've got a DVI driver for my HP DeskJet 500, but it doesn't work. > >Could somebody either: > - Tell me what incredibly stupid thing I'm doing wrong, >OR > - Send me a working driver? > Me too - if anyone knows of a dvi->HP Deskjet 500 filter, please let me know where I can get it! Many thanks Bob Hepple Business Development Manager-Solutions Sun Microsystems Inc Asia Headquarters 29/F Shui On Centre 8 Harbour Rd Hong Kong ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | Bob Hepple | _____ _ _ _ _ |voice: (852) 865-1688 | | Sun Microsystems, Inc.| /____ / / /\ / | fax: (852) 865-2667 | | Hong Kong | _____/ /___/ _/ \/ | inet: bhepple@Asia.Sun.Com| | GMT + 8 hours | | uucp: ..!sun!sunhk!bhepple| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
usys@phoenix.uucp (Uwe C. Schroeder) (04/23/91)
Some people wrote :
> > - Send me a working driver? (HP Deskjet 500)
Iam using the driver hpjet. It's the driver for the hp laserjet (not plus).
The Laser Jet and the Desk Jet are both PCLIII compatible.
I think it should also work on a 500 (I've got the Deskjet plus).
Hope it helps
Uwe
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