HP LaserJet 4L

[Guest]

I've recently upgraded(!) from W98 to XP Professional. The W98 LaserJet driver gave a nice option in the graphics set-up to produce "diffused" halftones, which gave a kind of "posterised" effect, and was very good for printing items which include logos and other graphics such as scanned mixed text and graphic documents stored as PDF files
The XP driver doesn't have the "diffused" option, but uses "supercell" instead. The results with "supercell" aren't so good, and I would like the "diffused" option. Re-loading the standard LaserJet driver in XP still doesn't give the "diffused" option
Any ideas??

 

[Bruce Sanderson]

The drivers for many "older" printers (such as the HP LaserJet 4L) included
with Windows XP are lacking features that were included in the Windows 9x
drivers.

It it the printer manufacturer that provides the printer drivers, even
though they are included on the Windows XP CD.

You might find that the drivers available from the HP web site
(http://welcome.hp.com/country/us/en/support.html) are "better" than the one
on the Windows XP CD.

Unfortunatly, printer manufacturers, including HP, have not seen fit to
provide the same function richness for Windows 2000 and XP printer drivers
that they did for the Windows 9x printer drivers for these older printers.

--
Bruce Sanderson MVP

It is perfectly useless to know the right answer to the wrong question.

I've recently upgraded(!) from W98 to XP Professional. The W98 LaserJet

driver gave a nice option in the graphics set-up to produce "diffused"
halftones, which gave a kind of "posterised" effect, and was very good for
printing items which include logos and other graphics such as scanned mixed
text and graphic documents stored as PDF files.

The XP driver doesn't have the "diffused" option, but uses "supercell"

instead. The results with "supercell" aren't so good, and I would like the
"diffused" option. Re-loading the standard LaserJet driver in XP still
doesn't give the "diffused" option.

 

[Guest]

Thanks Bruc

I've already tried that, and using the original W98 driver, but XP seems to over-ride everything

Regards Pet
----- Bruce Sanderson wrote: ----

The drivers for many "older" printers (such as the HP LaserJet 4L) include
with Windows XP are lacking features that were included in the Windows 9
drivers

It it the printer manufacturer that provides the printer drivers, eve
though they are included on the Windows XP CD

You might find that the drivers available from the HP web sit
(http://welcome.hp.com/country/us/en/support.html) are "better" than the on
on the Windows XP CD

Unfortunatly, printer manufacturers, including HP, have not seen fit t
provide the same function richness for Windows 2000 and XP printer driver
that they did for the Windows 9x printer drivers for these older printers

--
Bruce Sanderson MV

It is perfectly useless to know the right answer to the wrong question

I've recently upgraded(!) from W98 to XP Professional. The W98 LaserJe

driver gave a nice option in the graphics set-up to produce "diffused
halftones, which gave a kind of "posterised" effect, and was very good fo
printing items which include logos and other graphics such as scanned mixe
text and graphic documents stored as PDF files

The XP driver doesn't have the "diffused" option, but uses "supercell

instead. The results with "supercell" aren't so good, and I would like th
"diffused" option. Re-loading the standard LaserJet driver in XP stil
doesn't give the "diffused" option

 

[Bruce Sanderson]

If you can convince HP to add the "diffuse" option to the Windows XP driver
for 4L, then good for you, however, this is unlikely to ever happen. There
is a long history of reduced functional capability for the Windows NT, 2000
and XP drivers for "older" printers. Basically, you get what you get and
that's that.

The only other thing that comes to mind is to try is to use a driver for a
different model (any LaserJet 4, 5 or 6) and see if that improves things.

Drivers built for Windows 98 typically don't work with Windows XP and can
cause lots of grief if the actually get "installed". There's lots of
threads in this and other newsgroups of such grief and how to recover from
it.

 

[Pete]

Thanks Bruce
I tried the Laserjet 5 and 6 drivers without success. They
seem to add only 600dpi (which my printer can't do), and
don't even include the "Supercell" option.

Thanks anyway.

Regards

Pete