> > On Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 04:48:05PM +0100, E.L. Meijer Eric" wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > I am looking at buying a new printer, and had my eyes on a HP DeskJet > > > > 710C, which I would definitely have bought if I only ran Windows. > > > > > > > I wrote: > > > > > The 710C is a Windows printer. Someone hacked together a driver that > > > works very well for black and white for the 710, 720, 820 and 1000 > > Hi, > > I have an HP820Cse on one computer, and it's a Windows only printer as > described above. I use a pbm2ppa driver, but if you print 2 pages from > netscape it takes 90% of the cpu for about 2 minutes. In other words > it's a real performace pig (it's a pig in windows too). In all fairness > it does a really nice job, but I wouldn't buy one today.
This surprises me somewhat. I found that black and white printing from linux with pbm2ppa on a 710 is really fast. I have a PII 266MHz/64MB system, and mostly print TeX output from linux. Do you have a much slower processor, or is it netscape performance that slows it down? The color version I recently tried seemed to be working, although I have to look into gamma settings and getting it to eject pages properly. This is really slow, as it is in Windows. Eric -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Eindhoven Univ. of Technology Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (SKA)