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AG-2 Printing to a Mac-only HP DeskWriter® from a Windows® PC®
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4.00, using
hpdskjtb.drv
, will provide color and B&W output to
the DeskWriter 660C, allows supports serial printing, but the color
output is of very poor quality and the driver properties are very
limited. Later versions of this driver (e.g. v9.02 and v11.0),
available at HP's web site http://www.hp.com/, do not support
printing to the serial port. Unfortunately, "tricks" like redirecting
printer port output to the serial port via the DOS mode
LPTn=COMn redirection command do not overcome this
limitation.
Interestingly, a driver for a much more modern HP DeskJet series
of printers does work, and it works very nicely. The drivers for the
DeskJet 640C series (with USB and Parallel interfaces) are entirely
compatible with the DeskWriter 660C, and support printing to a
serial port. The "HP DeskJet 640 Series Printer Driver USB"
driver,
dh653en.exe
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v2.4.4, can be downloaded from HP. The
startup screen is shown below:
Figure 4: HP DeskJet 640C Printer Driver Installer
Run the setup program
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on your PC by selecting "Install HP
DeskJet 640C Series printer software", and select a parallel port
(e.g. LPT1:) even though your DeskWriter is not connected to said
parallel port. Use the Skip option to disregard any problems the
installer has communicating with the printer. After setup is
complete, the printer driver will have been successfully installed:
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