Alex Nichol
January 5th 04, 09:55 PM
Lawrence Costa (Larry) wrote:
>Hi, Im new to group and XP and willing to tweak its registry.
>MS and HP I guess are trying to make me buy a new printer.
>My HP 895ces printed two-sided fine in Win 98SE and also allowed
>resolution better than 300 DPI. Win XP driver kills both these
>goodies. Has anyone got a tweak or a way to install the Win 98 driver
>for this? HP says I have the current driver.
XP comes with just basic drivers, common to all Deskjets, that do a good
job of printing but do not provide these bells and whistles. Those are
up to the maker (HP) - who seem *very* reluctant to produce any upgrade
driver for them
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Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
Bournemouth, U.K. (remove the D8 bit)
>Hi, Im new to group and XP and willing to tweak its registry.
>MS and HP I guess are trying to make me buy a new printer.
>My HP 895ces printed two-sided fine in Win 98SE and also allowed
>resolution better than 300 DPI. Win XP driver kills both these
>goodies. Has anyone got a tweak or a way to install the Win 98 driver
>for this? HP says I have the current driver.
XP comes with just basic drivers, common to all Deskjets, that do a good
job of printing but do not provide these bells and whistles. Those are
up to the maker (HP) - who seem *very* reluctant to produce any upgrade
driver for them
--
Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
Bournemouth, U.K. (remove the D8 bit)