Re: HP DeskJet 500c

[kls0@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Kent Squires )]

mbusse@amiganet.xnet.com (Marco Busse) writes:

>I recently purchased an HP DeskJet 500c. Now I'm looking for a driver. The only
>ones I have heard about are the Harmonie drivers. A friend of mine who recently
>sold his GS sold me an old version of the drivers for a good price. They work
>fine with the standard black cartridge, but I can't get them to work with
>color! Whenever I insert the color cartridge in and try to print, the print
>carriage moves to the center of the printer, and the change cartridge light
>starts blinking. According to my manual, this would indicate a faulty
>cartridge. But I doubt this is the case because a) the cartridge is brand new,
>and b) it prints just fine when I do a self-test.

Actually, it would indicate that that the computer is telling the printer to
print in black, and you have a color cartridge in the printer.  I'm pretty sure
that if you go to the file menu under Print and look for a Setup or Options
button there should be something under one of those to tell it to print
in either color or black.  I don't have a color printer, but I guess I could
load up a Harmonie driver and check it out for you.  I'll try and do that 
tomorrow sometime, or maybe tonight if time permits.

>This brings me to my question. Do I need to buy a newer version of the Harmonie
>drivers in order to use color? The ones I bought from my friend are version 2.0
>(release of June 17, 1991 on the update text file). Or is there another driver
>that I can buy somewhere else that does color? Or am I just being stupid and
>missing something obvious?


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