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Using HP 855C with Vista 64
I have a very old and very reliable HP 855C printer. There is no Vista
driver available for the 855C. I downloaded used the HP driver for the 870. It prints fine, however, before each print job I get a single page with "@PJL ENTER LANGUAGE=PCL" on the first line and the rest blank. The rest of the print is fine. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to eliminate the first page? Thanks and Happy New Year. Alan |
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Using HP 855C with Vista 64
"Alan Wolfson" abwlistREMOVEatSPAMfuseFILTERdotnet wrote in message
: I have a very old and very reliable HP 855C printer. There is no Vista driver available for the 855C. I downloaded used the HP driver for the 870. It prints fine, however, before each print job I get a single page with "@PJL ENTER LANGUAGE=PCL" on the first line and the rest blank. The rest of the print is fine. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to eliminate the first page? I would suggest trying the Deskjet 500C driver built into Vista. (Use Add Printer). Regards, Bob Headrick. MS MVP Printing/Imaging |
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Using HP 855C with Vista 64
"Bob Headrick" wrote in message acquisition... "Alan Wolfson" abwlistREMOVEatSPAMfuseFILTERdotnet wrote in message : I have a very old and very reliable HP 855C printer. There is no Vista driver available for the 855C. I downloaded used the HP driver for the 870. It prints fine, however, before each print job I get a single page with "@PJL ENTER LANGUAGE=PCL" on the first line and the rest blank. The rest of the print is fine. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to eliminate the first page? I would suggest trying the Deskjet 500C driver built into Vista. (Use Add Printer). Regards, Bob Headrick. MS MVP Printing/Imaging Thanks for the suggestion Bob. Using the Deskjet 500C driver eliminates the extra page as you suggested. However, when printing black letters they come out a reddish brown. Did the 500C make black by mixing colors? If I set the printer to black instead of color, it prints using black ink. It's a good work around if I don't need color. I suspect that if I want color I will have to use an XP computer. Happy New Year! Alan |
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Using HP 855C with Vista 64
On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 13:25:29 -0500, Alan Wolfson wrote:
I have a very old and very reliable HP 855C printer. There is no Vista The 800 series HP printers were not very reliable when it came to paper handling. They were problematic when feeding certain papers after the rollers became less pliable. driver available for the 855C. I downloaded used the HP driver for the 870. It prints fine, however, before each print job I get a single page with "@PJL ENTER LANGUAGE=PCL" on the first line and the rest blank. The rest of the print is fine. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to eliminate the first page? Thanks and Happy New Year. Alan |
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Using HP 855C with Vista 64
On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 22:13:26 +0000, Bob Headrick wrote:
"Alan Wolfson" abwlistREMOVEatSPAMfuseFILTERdotnet wrote in message : I have a very old and very reliable HP 855C printer. There is no Vista driver available for the 855C. I downloaded used the HP driver for the 870. It prints fine, however, before each print job I get a single page with "@PJL ENTER LANGUAGE=PCL" on the first line and the rest blank. The rest of the print is fine. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to eliminate the first page? I would suggest trying the Deskjet 500C driver built into Vista. (Use Add Printer). Regards, Bob Headrick. MS MVP Printing/Imaging That is a crappy driver from day one. |
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Using HP 855C with Vista 64
"measekite" wrote in message ... On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 13:25:29 -0500, Alan Wolfson wrote: I have a very old and very reliable HP 855C printer. There is no Vista The 800 series HP printers were not very reliable when it came to paper handling. They were problematic when feeding certain papers after the rollers became less pliable. Thanks for an utterly useless comment. As I said my HP855C is 13 years old and has reliably printed 10s of thousands of pages maybe even 100s of thousands with no problems. In that period I have had to clean out the ink well two times. A well designed and well engineered printer. Alan |
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Using HP 855C with Vista 64
On Thu, 01 Jan 2009 06:56:57 -0500, Alan Wolfson wrote:
"measekite" wrote in message ... On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 13:25:29 -0500, Alan Wolfson wrote: I have a very old and very reliable HP 855C printer. There is no Vista The 800 series HP printers were not very reliable when it came to paper handling. They were problematic when feeding certain papers after the rollers became less pliable. Thanks for an utterly useless comment. As I said my HP855C is 13 years old and has reliably printed 10s of thousands of pages maybe even 100s of thousands with no problems. In that period I have had to clean out the ink well two times. A well designed and well engineered printer. Alan It was not very well designed. It had poor paper handling and envelope feeding and you never printed hundreds of thousands of pages. That is a lie since the HP engineers did not design that kind of longevity into any inkjet ever. |
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Using HP 855C with Vista 64
measekite wrote:
On Thu, 01 Jan 2009 06:56:57 -0500, Alan Wolfson wrote: "measekite" wrote in message ... On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 13:25:29 -0500, Alan Wolfson wrote: I have a very old and very reliable HP 855C printer. There is no Vista The 800 series HP printers were not very reliable when it came to paper handling. They were problematic when feeding certain papers after the rollers became less pliable. Thanks for an utterly useless comment. As I said my HP855C is 13 years old and has reliably printed 10s of thousands of pages maybe even 100s of thousands with no problems. In that period I have had to clean out the ink well two times. A well designed and well engineered printer. Alan It was not very well designed. It had poor paper handling and envelope feeding and you never printed hundreds of thousands of pages. That is a lie since the HP engineers did not design that kind of longevity into any inkjet ever. That doesn't mean that it didn't happen. Statistically speaking, for every printer that fails in the first week there's another of the same model that happily chugs away for years beyond its expected life. And another thing - the OP never said anything about printing envelopes. Maybe he doesn't. Assuming a 6-day work week, 100,000 pages works out to around 25 pages a day over the course of 13 years. (100,000 pages/13 years/52 weeks a year/6 days a week) That doesn't sound like so many to me. TJ |
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Using HP 855C with Vista 64
"TJ" wrote in message ... measekite wrote: On Thu, 01 Jan 2009 06:56:57 -0500, Alan Wolfson wrote: "measekite" wrote in message ... On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 13:25:29 -0500, Alan Wolfson wrote: I have a very old and very reliable HP 855C printer. There is no Vista The 800 series HP printers were not very reliable when it came to paper handling. They were problematic when feeding certain papers after the rollers became less pliable. Thanks for an utterly useless comment. As I said my HP855C is 13 years old and has reliably printed 10s of thousands of pages maybe even 100s of thousands with no problems. In that period I have had to clean out the ink well two times. A well designed and well engineered printer. Alan It was not very well designed. It had poor paper handling and envelope feeding and you never printed hundreds of thousands of pages. That is a lie since the HP engineers did not design that kind of longevity into any inkjet ever. That doesn't mean that it didn't happen. Statistically speaking, for every printer that fails in the first week there's another of the same model that happily chugs away for years beyond its expected life. And another thing - the OP never said anything about printing envelopes. Maybe he doesn't. Assuming a 6-day work week, 100,000 pages works out to around 25 pages a day over the course of 13 years. (100,000 pages/13 years/52 weeks a year/6 days a week) That doesn't sound like so many to me. TJ TJ, actually, I do print envelopes all the time. Now it is one at a time, but years ago when I was sending out a newsletter I used to print them in batches using as many envelopes at a time as would fit in the tray. Measekite's comments are irrelevant to the topic and ill informed as usual. Alan |
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Using HP 855C with Vista 64
Alan Wolfson wrote:
Measekite's comments are irrelevant to the topic and ill informed as usual. True. That's mostly because he refuses to accept the idea that someone can have an experience that runs contrary to what he believes. He completely discounts the idea that a heavily-used mechanical device that is well-maintained can actually last longer than one that is lightly used. Take the paper rollers, for example. With most users, the surface of the rollers dries out over time, and the printer develops paper-handling problems. The cure is often to use some sort of abrasive to remove that surface and restore its "grip." With a heavily-used printer, wear from the passage of paper would probably do the same job as the abrasive, and the roller surface wouldn't dry out the same way. Of course, that speculation is based on years of general experience with things mechanical, so it could be completely wrong. Unlike Measekite, I don't claim to be a printer expert. But it makes perfect sense to me. Actually, Measekite surprised me. I'm surprised he didn't jump in and say that the only way you could possibly get that kind of life out of a printer was if you'd used OEM ink exclusively. TJ |
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