[ale] Anyone using an HP Officejet Pro K550

[Scott Castaline]

Trey Sizemore wrote:
> 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.
>
>   
Glad I was able to help