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HP DesignJet 500ps workaround - it works
Authored by: barryjaylevine on May 28, '03 10:54:22AM

My customer received her new Dual-1.25G4 so we transferred the old 120GB data drive from her B&W over to the new machine, copied over the (OS9) HP RIP software, and set Classic and then the HP RIP to launch upon startup.

To print to the HP500PS from OSX, you "print to a postscript file". The postscript option only is available if you have the proper ppd and driver. We're using the HP800PS ppd (per HP's recommendation as it is OSX native). The resulting file is then simply dropped into the HP RIP's status window and it prints perfectly.

Bonus: Because Classic exists in its own memory space, any OSX apps are not affected by the "chug, chug, grunt, grunt" of the RIP in Classic. In other words: OSX apps are not slowed down by the OS9 RIP!

No success yet in using the old B&W for a RIP server. Seems there's nowhere to "drop" the postscript file if you have to do it over the network. If HP doesn't release an OSX RIP soon, I'll have to experiment with an AppleScript or write something in Revolution to handle this.

However, like the dancing mule, the wonder is not how well it dances but that it dances at all.



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