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HP DeskJet 812C
 
Color inkjet printer, max. 600x600 dpi, works Perfectly
Recommended Driver: hplip (Home page)
Generic Instructions: CUPS, no spooler
 

Miscellaneous

Printer supports direct text printing with the 'us-ascii' charset.

Comments

For basic printing functionality use the HPIJS driver . For advanced functionality such as printer status and maintenance features, use the HPLIP driver (which includes HPIJS).

User report:

Colour resolution under Linux is 600x600 dpi. HP claims the Windows driver they ship with the printer enhances this using "PhotoRet II" technology. The driver basically changes the amount of colors per dot by reducing the size of the inkdrops. Supposedly the inkdrops are 70% smaller per dot than those produced by the average DeskJet. After checking their site, I found no driver to enable this same technology under any UNICES. Still, this should be a nice printer overall under Linux, so unleash that GIMP! This printer appears to be functionally identical to the DeskJet 810C. I am currently using the 300dpi DeskJet 550C colour Ghostscript setup as shipped with Red Hat Linux 6.0, and the output is excellent in every respect. I have marked the suggested driver as cdj880 as I am 99.9% certain it will work and this driver should give the best output.

Good output should also be possible from the "pcl3"/"hpdj" drivers.

I believe that various papers like transparency, glossy, etc, are supported by one or the other "cdjXXX" driver.

Consumables/Refills: C1823 (CMY) and C6615A (K)

Drivers

The following driver(s) are known to drive this printer:

Recommended driver:

 
hplip  (driver home page)
 
HP's driver suite for printers and multi-function devices
Supplier: Hewlett-Packard (this printer's manufacturer)
License: MIT/BSD/GPL (free software)
User support:HPLIP support and bug tracking system (voluntary)
Max. rendering resolution: 600x600dpi   Color output   Type: CUPS Raster
Text:||||||||||  100Graphics:||||||||||  100System Load:Unknown
Line Art:||||||||||  100Photo:||||||||||  100Speed:||||||||||  70
 

Other drivers:

 
cdj550  (driver home page)
 
This driver is free software.
Type: Ghostscript built-in
Download:PPD file: View PPD, directly download PPD
 

 
cdj880  (driver home page)
 
This driver is obsolete. Recommended replacement driver: hplip
This driver is free software.
Type: Ghostscript built-in
Download:PPD file: View PPD, directly download PPD
 

 
gimp-print  (driver home page)
 
This driver is obsolete. Recommended replacement driver: gutenprint
This driver is free software.
Type: CUPS Raster
 

 
gutenprint  (driver home page)
 
Top Quality Printer Drivers for inkjets, dye sublimation printers, and PCL lasers
Supplier: Gutenprint project
License: GPL (free software)
User support:Gutenprint mailing list at SourceForge (voluntary)
Color output   Type: CUPS Raster
Text:||||||||||  90Graphics:||||||||||  100System Load:Unknown
Line Art:||||||||||  90Photo:||||||||||  100Speed:||||||||||  60