How to make the HP DeskJet 500 print a 'test page'

Its practically the same printer ! But the 500 only has a single black (colour, if you change the ink) cartridge. The 932C I think has USB as well as parallel port inputs. As far as print quality is concerned yours should be better having 600 dpi as against 300 dpi for the DJ500 plus colour. The DJ500C could do colour but you had to change cartridges. I belive it was the DJ520 that had both black and colour cartridges in the same carriage. The DJ500 also had an RS232 serial port as well. Very handy when attached to a "Netware PS" !

Thanks for that recommendation.

Wow, Korea really knows how to make products. That makes 3 Samsung products [printer, phone, and washing machine] and 1 Genesis Coupe [auto] I'd like to buy. As soon as I have the money. But, others must be buying, so K's economy ought to be doing well, eh?

Absolutely reliable, easy to load paper, easy to repair, built in shelf to stand your paper punch, stapler etc on. :-)

Wasn't that made by HP for Apple ? The only straight paper path ink jet that I know of was the HP DJ400, DJ420. That would do 80lb card stock.

No. The Apple LaserWriter II NT/NTX was made by Canon for Apple. The major SX series mechanical parts are identical to the HP LJII. The DC contoller board is the same. However, the plastic case, status lights, button, i/o, and image processor board (controller) are all very different.

Any and all inkjet plotters have a straight paper path. If you want to print on cardboard, an inkjet plotter is the way to do it. However, they tend to be more expensive than an ordinary inkjet printer.

Most (not all) inkjet printers that claim to print on photo grade paper, will have a fairly straight paper path. It's usually done by removing a panel in the rear of the printer. They need a staight through path because thick photo paper just hates to be curled around a roller. The clay coated surface will sometimes crack on really thick and glossy photo paper.

Drivel: Here's a person that prints on balsa wood with an inkjet:

and aluminum sheet:

On 11/3/2009 1:58 PM Baron spake thus:

Yes, the 932C has USB, which was how I was using it. Didn't know it was that good; I got it because it was about the cheapest thing available at the time (ca. 2000).

perhaps a museum?

Why not spend the $25 and get something made in this century? Limited to printers supported by windows 3.1?

That's venerable Canon SX engine, which is built like a tank & should last forever if you look after it. They're nice machines to work on too, unlike many of the newer types. I got rid of my own one (built from scrapped machines) when I moved from a big place to a small place. I now run an HP 4M+ with PostScript, which is nearly as solid.

Indeed. And cartridges are still readily available for reasonable prices.

The variable dot size works really well.

Oh, they still hold up pretty well, & they won't fall to pieces after a few years the way that modern units will.

No, Canon. HP, Apple & Brother all used the Canon SX engine for 'their' printers. (Canon's own model numbers using that engine were the LBP8II & III.)

Jeff Liebermann Inscribed thus:

Ah, thats why !

It never occurred to me to print on anything other than paper or card stock. Thanks for the interesting links. :-)

Bob Larter Inscribed thus:

Thanks. I hadn't realised that was the case.

send me the $25 and I will

On Nov 4, 4:21=A0am, baron wrote: ...snip...

Might be interested in seeing the FLATTEST, and most unique, inkjet target: a layer of plaster of paris. The special ink sets the particles sprayed and unsprayed particles are sacrificial, to be used another time.

This printer puts down a thin layer of plaster of paris, sprays that layer, then new layer of powder is added and sprayed until a 3D rendering is completed. I've see 6 inch tall items.

Most incredible of all, I've seen this "Printer" make operating gear sets that are impossible to assemble! The gears all spin intermeshed, but it would NOT be possible to assemble such a structure, it just has to come into existence - operating.

Fascinating, that the 'rinter' has better than 3 mil tolerance and the inks are colored.

See: ZCorp color 3D rapid prototyping at Autodesk Imagine

here in the Bay Area it's repped by Sales, Northern California, and Nevada Peak Solutions LLC

Robert Macy Inscribed thus:

A rather unique way of creating prototypes. Thanks for that fascinating insight.