HP C3180

[Eric Taylor]

Sort of OT, but since this subject is near and dear to my heart...

FWIW, I have to agree with Scott on this one. Our HP 5100's will crash just printing a page from Safari that has *colored text* in it! This is not an ideal situation, particularly as we are a print production studio working in Adobe products 90% of the time. Basically, since OS X is so dependent on the PDF format, I would be reluctant to get anything again that did not do true Adobe postscript. The Xerox Phaser 5500, which is one of the few remaining tabloid size printers I could find that still uses true Adobe postscript prints incredibly quickly and reliably by comparison.

In particular with regards to HP 5100's (and possibly other HP printers using a similar emulator?), you could try sending the job sans color. As long as we remember to change the output optionsin ID to "Send Composite Grayscale", they are fairly reliable, although some pages will print incredibly slowly--to the tune of 5-10 minutes per page. Don't know if this tweak is useful across the board with HPs, but it can't hurt to try...

macosx-admin-request at omnigroup.com wrote:
From: Scott Ribe <scott_ribe at killerbytes.com>
CC: 
To: LuKreme <kremels at kreme.com>, <macosx-admin at omnigroup.com>
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2007 07:39:27 -0600
Subject: Re: MacOSX-admin Digest, Vol 39, Issue 26

 > Works just fine for 99% of people.

I don't define: "refusing to print a not-complex page" as "works fine for
99% of people". HP printers are a crap shoot now. Many of them do work well
enough for most people. Some, however, are just pathetic. Same comment seems
to apply to Brother. And the ones that work better are not necessarily the
more expensive ones.

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