[ale] Anyone using an HP Officejet Pro K550

[Trey Sizemore]

On Thu Mar 16, 2006 11:08AM, Scott Castaline wrote:
> Trey Sizemore wrote:
> > I'm pulling my hair out trying to get this printer working in CUPS.  Per
> > some research I'm using the hplip driver (I have 0.9.4 installed) and
> > *thought* I had it working by choosing a late-model HP photo driver (HP
> > PhotoSmart 7960 Foomatic/hpijs), but the colors aren't right today (I
> > thought it was OK the other day).
> >
> > Now I notice that the red colors are too light or incomplete on the test
> > page color wheel (red is mostly yellow, magenta is 3/4 white, cyan and
> > blue are the same color of blue).
> >
> > The printer is shown as "works perfectly" at linuxprinting.org.
> >
> > Ink levels, as reported by the "ink" command line program show all ink
> > at >70%.  Not sure if there's a way to clean the nozzles on this, but it
> > is only a couple days old.
> >
> > Any help is appreciated!
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > -Trey
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> >   
> If you haven't already check this out, I believe that you are using the 
> wrong series printer....
> http://hpinkjet.sourceforge.net/printmodedescr.php#DJGenericVIP

Thanks.  Got it working now.

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Cheers,
Trey
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