Problem with HP 855C

[amit shah]

Hey everyone,
I just got a viata machine 64 bit, and I have a very old and very reliable HP 855C printer. There is no Vista driver available for 855C, so instead i dowloaded the HP driver for 870. By far its going fine apart from one problem, before each print job I get a single page with "@PJL ENTER LANGUAGE=PCL" on the first line and the rest blank.

[Maxforu]

Why don't you trythe Deskjet 500C driver built into Vista -- Use Add Printer.

[amit shah]

Thanks Bob for your prompt suggestion, I tried it but it gives some technical error while printing i.e, when printing black letters they come out a reddish brown.. don't know why... But have to say it's a good work around if I don't need color. I suspect that if I want color i have no other options other than using the XP machine.

[deoWo]

When it comes to Paper Handling the 800 series HP printers were not very reliable. They were problematic when feeding certain papers after the rollers became less pliable.
Even I think that you may have to go with windows XP for colour Printing since you dont get the drivers for Vista of HP855C.

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