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I have an ancient Deskjet 550C.
It isn't fully compatible with XP. It works with the windows drivers but they don't have any coloursmart type technology. I imagine it's possible to get the HP drivers to work with XP, but nobody's tried.
This means that black isn't used for the black. I thought I'd install Windows 2000 on a spare partition. Windows 2000 gets a little anxious if you have drives larger than 130GB. Also seemed to think my XP partition was corrupted and seemed to be threatening to delete that. Decided it wasn't that important and printed using the crappy XP drivers, only to discover my ink had dried up. Or something.
And it is only 300x300 resolution.
It may be solidly built but it's simply not worth maintaining this ancient tank. Anyone know of a decent inkjet printer that's fairly compact and doesn't come with a damn scanner?
It isn't fully compatible with XP. It works with the windows drivers but they don't have any coloursmart type technology. I imagine it's possible to get the HP drivers to work with XP, but nobody's tried.
This means that black isn't used for the black. I thought I'd install Windows 2000 on a spare partition. Windows 2000 gets a little anxious if you have drives larger than 130GB. Also seemed to think my XP partition was corrupted and seemed to be threatening to delete that. Decided it wasn't that important and printed using the crappy XP drivers, only to discover my ink had dried up. Or something.
And it is only 300x300 resolution.
It may be solidly built but it's simply not worth maintaining this ancient tank. Anyone know of a decent inkjet printer that's fairly compact and doesn't come with a damn scanner?
