From: baseball@catch-the-fever.scd.ucar.edu (Gregg Walters)
Subject: Re: Need HP Desk-Jet 500c driver
Organization: Scientific Computing Divison/NCAR Boulder, CO
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 20:11:03 GMT

In Article: 4586 of comp.os.ms-windows.apps,
tibor@server.uwindsor.ca (TORONYI TIBOR ) asked >>

>> Subject: Need HP Desk-Jet 500c driver

>> The line says it all.  I need an HP DeskJet 500c driver for WIN3.1

>> If not can somebody point to where I could get one. OR the number for HP to see
>> if one will be available.

You may already have what you need.  I recently got the HP500C myself, and
here's what I did to get the driver installed (hope I'm remembering all this
correctly) -

    In your Control Panel, click on the Printers icon.
    Click on the Install button, scroll through the list to the bottom and
      choose "other" - DONT choose the HP driver from this list, I think I
      tried this and got stuck without the color capabilities.
  * You will then be asked to insert the floppy containing the manufacturer's
      driver (which do predate Windows 3.1, but be patient)
    After this you will be asked to insert Windows 3.1 Disk #5 (or was it 6?)
    Finally, Windows will show that it has added "HP Desk Jet ver 2.0".
    Make this your default printer.  Go through all your non-Windows
      applications and select HP500C.  If not available choose HP Desk Jet
      Series.   If not available choose HP Laser Jet.  If not available ??
      Some of my DOS apps won't drive the color capability of the HP500C.
      A work-around for a color screen print is to run the DOS app in a
      window, with a PIF that gives Windows control of the PrtScrn key.
      When you hit PrtScrn, the screen will be copied to the Clipboard,
      from which you can -
	1) paste into Windows Paintbrush, then print
	2) use an applet to print directly from the Clipboard (my PrintClip
	   will only do text 8-( but there are others...)

  * Part of this process will write some HP scalable fonts to your hard disk.
    If you do a DIR in C:\WINDOWS (or maybe it is C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM) the True
    Type font files will appear in pairs (.FOT and .TTF, one is for the screen,
    the other for the printer).  The HP files come in trios, and have cryptic
    5 or 6 digit names.  The "extra" small file has a ".PTM" extension.  I'm
    uncertain about the function of the .PTM files.  Anyway, if you click on
    the Fonts icon in the Control Panel, and ask Windows to install all the
    fonts it finds on your hard disk, when done you can view them.  I thought
    that the HP fonts (Courier, CG Times, and Univers) were redundant with
    what I already had, and since these things devour disk space and slow
    down Windows boots, I scrubbed them.

I did not need to contact HP or MS to get the driver - I already had it.

Hope this helps.  If you need more help, E-mail me.

If in the past you've been working with a 9-pin like me, you are really
going to have fun with the HP500C.  Much better graphics and near laser
quality text.  Watch out for graphics with large areas of solid colors.
The ink may make the paper wrinkle, meaning you need a better paper.  I haven't
solved this yet, but haven't spent much time experimenting either...

It would be nice, within a word processor, to select a color for the text,
or for ranges of text (e.g. as in some Bibles where the words of Christ are
printed in red) but the only way I know to do this within a graphics app
like Paintbrush, and that's kind of clumsy for large documents...
I just got Word for Windows direct from MS, and am hoping to find this
feature.
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