Re: Apple IIgs and printers

[webmaster@cardshow.com (Michael Guitton)]

In article <01bc7854$635c2360$0266edcc@default>, "Barry Rees"
<Barry.Rees@prodigy.net> wrote:

>
>Can IIGS users hope for an update to the Harmonie drivers to include
>drivers for some of the newer HP printers such as the 850 and 870 DeskJet
>series? The reason I ask is because I am using a DeskJet 560 driver with my
>870 Cse and their is an intermittent problem with pixels missing from black
>text. (The 870 Cse has two print cartridges, a black and a color.) It's
>almost like it's not spraying enough black ink for the black text. Color
>text printing is fine. The interesting thing about this is I don't have the
>same difficultly when printing from my wife's 486. Other than the Harmonie
>driver, I don't know what the problem with the GS printing could be. I have
>tried every DeskJet driver with every possible combination of Harmonie
>settings on the GS and have seen improvement, but the black text problem
>remains. Once and a while I get a perfect printout, but usually it's not. 
>
An Apple press release officially announces the new Color StyleWriters based
on Hewlett-Packard mechanicals: http://www.macintouch.com/swpr.shtml.

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