HP DeskJet 5150 Color Printer...

I'm trying to install this printer, however I cannot find the exact
printer model in the list of printers...
I wanted to cut and paste the list of printers here, but cannot...
Can someone tell me which HP printer most closely functions like my
printer?
ie.. is there a printer that is capable of emulating this printer in
the list of the HP printers supported?
(MAC OS X 10.4.8)

 

Hi Mike... Sorry for the confusion...
System Prefrences, Print & Fax, (I select the printer from the list),
Printer Setup, Printer Model, Then from the list of printers I choose
HP
and there is a list of HP printers...
Do you have a link to the HP Site and printer driver?

 

Is your HP connected to a Win2K workstation and you are trying to
connect through a mac by any chance?

Can I ask if you needed to download drivers from HP? and if so can you
point me to the link?

 

I did that... (Can't say the driver installation said much.. it just
ran and exited.)

I deleted the printer and added it again.

System Prefrences, Print & Fax, Click to + to add a printer, More
Printers..., (Selected windows Printing, Workgroup, Workstation name)
Choose, hpdeskjet (My Printer), Printer Model, HP, HP LaserJet 5100
Series (as there was no DeskJet 51*), Add

Still when I print to that printer which shows up as an it outputs
postscript to the HP which prints it as text.. and as you can imagin
waists a lot of paper...

 

Exactly but there is no DeskJet 5100 in the list of printers... So...
Is it that someone has misunderstood or assumed that the two
are the same... If you look at the download driver page there is
mention
of both.. Just to add to the confusion.

I noticed that, too too...

Its not connected to the mac unless networked printers are not actually
supported as the documentation states they are.... Its connected by
network... The printer itself is connected to a PC by USB... but
appears
on my MAC as a network printer...

Uhmmm ya.. Didn't I say that?

 

Dude.. The MAC thinks the printer is a postscript printer and sends
postscript to it.
Probably because the LaserJet 5100 series IS a postscript printer...
The DeskJet 5150 isn't... And the DeskJet 5150 DOESN'T appear
in the list of printers....

You would think that but you'd be wrong..
Ackk round and round...

 

Its a question of physical location and wireing... A physical
imposibility at the moment..

 

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/...en&cc=ca&dlc=en&product=304431&os=219&lang=en

The universal binary driver...

 

Yes did that...

 

How do I say this politly...
Racum Frackum Friken Fraken...

 

Which brings me back to my original posting...
Which printer in the list of supported HP printers most closely
resembles
the DeskJet 5150 Color Printer...

 

I humbly disagree...
1) My other winblows workstation prints fine to this network printer...
2) Why would apple send PS to a non postscript printer? If its a HP
printer (that doesn't support PS)
then it should be sending PCL to the printer not PS.

 

Yes.. that is very true.. and quite possibly the problem..
It's HPs printer driver on the MAC.. which may or may not be the right
driver that I've
selected because I selected the inkjet 5100 series... which may be
some other printer
that HP manufactures that does indeed support PS.
Which brings me back to IS there any other printer on the list is a
near match to this printer...

 

Not sure if you've seen this:

http://www.macworld.com/forums/ubbthreads/showthreaded.php?Number=357997

HP Deskjet 5150 is on the supported list for the driver linked to.

 

Yep this might work...
I guess they want you to print to a postscript printer emulator and
then let ghostscript
convert it to PCL.. Or something like this...
So I've installed both ESP Ghostscript and hpijs...
Now what?
Brian

 

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes that did it!!!!!
Thank you!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes that did it!!!!!
Thank you!!!!!!!!!!
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Oh brilliant - glad to hear it.

 

First the obigatory disclaimer - I am not in the printing group at HP.
I merely have a Photosmart 7150 on my 800 MHz, 10.3.9 G4 iMac at home.

Not having seen the aforementioned list, I will state IIRC the printer
"closest" to the DeskJet 5150 was the Photosmart 7150.

rick jones