HP
DeskJet 5551
4800
1200
http://products.hp-at-home.com/products/detail.php?prodnum=C6487C
A
hplip
Japanese edition of the HP DeskJet 5550<p>
Duplex unit optional, connection via parallel port and USB<p>
For basic printing functionality use the <a
href="http://hplipopensource.com/">HPIJS
driver </a>. For advanced functionality such
as printer status and maintenance features, use the
<a href="http://hplipopensource.com/">
HPLIP driver</a> (which includes HPIJS). <p>
The best printout quality you will get with the HPLIP
driver, provided by <a
href="http://hplipopensource.com/">HP</a>
(compatible to the HP DeskJet 990C), especially the 1200-dpi high
resolution mode gives excellent photo quality (the rendered bitmap
is 1200x1200 dpi, but the printer hardware does an interpolation
then and prints with the printer's highest resolution). Also
the Gimp-Print driver is reported to work (Model setting:
"pcl-900").<p>
When used with HP's HPLIP driver, this printer
auto-detects the paper type and ink cartridge type and does
appropriate dithering and colour adjustment internally, controlled
by the hardware. So when Ghostscript with the HPLIP
driver only renders the image with 300 or 600 dpi, higher
resolutions are used for the internal dithering. So if you insert
photo paper, the printer will print in photo quality, no paper
type choice in the driver's options is needed. There is also
a special high resolution mode where the image is rendered in 1200
dpi and interpolated to 4800x1200 dpi by the hardware, without
paper detection, intended for photo paper only.<p>
Border-less (full bleed) printing on paper sizes up to
Oufuku-Hagaki is supported with the HPLIP
driver.<p>
The duplex unit does not work with Gimp-Print, use
HPLIP, "cdj970" or "pcl3" instead.<p>
Consumables/Refills: One Color(CMY) + one Black(K) or Photo (cmK)<p>