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    From Pete@21:1/5 to All on Sun Sep 30 16:47:02 2018
    My HP 4500Dn is dying from plastic embrittlement from the heat of about
    15 years of use, and I'm looking for a comparable replacement. Does
    anybody know whether an H-P M653x would work? I has PCL5c and Postscript emulation, but given the price, I'm a bit reluctant to make the plunge
    until I can figure this out.

    Thanks,
    Pete

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  • From Pete@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Fri Oct 19 17:44:37 2018
    On Sun, 30 Sep 2018 21:47:02 UTC, "Pete"
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    My HP 4500Dn is dying from plastic embrittlement from the heat of about
    15 years of use, and I'm looking for a comparable replacement. Does
    anybody know whether an H-P M653x would work? I has PCL5c and Postscript emulation, but given the price, I'm a bit reluctant to make the plunge
    until I can figure this out.

    Thanks,
    Pete

    Quick follow-up (using better reading glasses): took a chance and bought
    an HP Color Laserjet M553dn, the model previous to the 653, from and
    overstock on-line seller on the chance it would work using the 4500dn's configuration (OS/2 Postcript driver). All I had to do was change the
    network address in the M553. Of course all the bells and whistles
    advertised by HP don't necessarily work, but that's OK for my purposes.
    I haven't been able to track down the PPD files specifically for it.

    HTH,
    Pete

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  • From Grant Taylor@21:1/5 to Pete on Fri Oct 19 17:05:37 2018
    On 10/19/2018 04:44 PM, Pete wrote:
    I haven't been able to track down the PPD files specifically for it.

    Aren't PPD files platform and driver agnostic?

    Can you extract them from something like CUPS, Mac OS X, or even Windows?

    Or did someone lie to me about PPD files in a prior life?



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  • From Pete@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Fri Oct 19 19:25:58 2018
    On Fri, 19 Oct 2018 23:05:37 UTC, Grant Taylor
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 10/19/2018 04:44 PM, Pete wrote:
    I haven't been able to track down the PPD files specifically for it.

    Aren't PPD files platform and driver agnostic?

    That's the impression I've been under from reading these NGs.

    Can you extract them from something like CUPS, Mac OS X, or even Windows?

    HP refers to a Linux site for the Linux drivers. I downloaded,
    extracted, and searched through the PPD files only to find no mention of
    the M553 in any of them. None were free of a lot of references to CUPS parameters (which is to be expected). I installed the Windows (XP)
    drivers from the CD on my doze partion, but a subsequent file search
    didn't show any PPD files, let alone new ones. The 4500 would print
    colors only as B&W when using CUPS (under Arca 5.0), so just in case,
    I'd like to be able to have the option of the native OS/2 drivers handy.

    The next step is to get together with a friend who has a MAC and see
    what's in the HP-supplied bdl file, but this won't be for a couple of
    weeks.

    Access to the M553's settings, status, and configuration are made via
    it's IP address, and FFX 31.8.0.b5 works fine for this (haven't yet
    solved the xull.dll loading issue for more resent versions).

    HTH,
    Pete


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