On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 11:52 AM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote:
> Over the years I have found that you can get most of the functionality > of a non-supported printer by using the driver for a related printer, > perhaps an earlier or later model. If it has Postscript (even > emulation) you may be able to codge together a driver by using a > generic PPD file. Many years ago I had a Laserjet MV (genuine > Adobe Postscript) that was not supported by my (then) Windows NT 3.1. > I used the PPD file for a Linotype 300 and it worked fine; that is, the > Lino had more features than the 4MV, so I just didn't use those > features. Yea John! The path I took to success: Chat on-line w/hp support describing my problem. Told to phone business support. Described my problem. In 30 sec. was told to use the deskjet 990c driver for win 2k support. Much time spent finding the driver. Downloaded it, put it in a new folder having the magic name dj990, executed it, convinced win2k to use it, and now the printer works. I was wondering how I was going to find out which driver to use. I was very pleased how quickly I was able to get that information from hp. -Denis _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
