- Hp Designjet 450c Windows Driver For Mac
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Which driver can I download for my HP DesignJet 450C (36' wide roll paper plotter) that will run on my Windows 10.1 (64 bit) Dell desktop computer? It is connected with a parallel printer cable to the HP 'Centronics' parallel port. Thanks in advance for your help.
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Hp Designjet 450c Windows Driver For Mac
Hi All, Does anyone have any experience printing from a Mac to an HP DesignJet 450C? I've searched HP's web site, as well as this one, and keep running into dead ends. There don't seem to be any drivers for this line of printers from the Mac platform. I'm willing to cludge work-arounds, such as going to a PDF first, but I don't know how to send it to the printer after that.Ideally, I would like to stay in OS X, but could drop into OS 9 if needed. Also, the printer only has a parallel port. I would like to enable others on the network to use it, so if I buy an HP print server, would that work with my Mac?
Thanks in advance, Josh. I have the 455ca version of that plotter. I am told the only thing different is mine came with the hp jet direct print server and the Hp RIP program to run the plotter. You need the postscript RIP for the Mac. I think if you got the jet direct, which plugs into the parallel port then got the RIP from the HP web site ( free) it should work in OS 9. Then if you want to work in OS X you have to have a OS 9 computer on the network that is running the rip.
Everything is connected to the eternet network so you would need a hub,switch or router. So here's the deal, buy the jet direct (+/ $250.00) from somebody that you can return it, if it does not work. Get a ethernet switch,if you are only hooking up for printer, you can use a 10base switch which is about $20.00 instead of a 10/100base or 1gigbase kind. A printer cannot accept the higher speeds anyway. Then down load the RIP and give it a try, otherwise you got to wait for Microspot's OSX drivers (+/- $350.00) to work for the 400 series HP plotters. They only support the 500, 800, 1000 series now. Also the $350.00 is not for a network solution, thats more like $900 depending on how large your network is.
Keven: Are you using one machine with a crossover ethernet cable or are you on a network? I too had problems when I had the one machine setup. It would work sometimes but not always.
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Then I got more machines and networked them together and it works so much better. The reason you can't print directly might be because you have corrupt fonts, or use fill patterns instead of hatches, etc. If you are one machine, I would highly suggest getting a old G3 and use it as the print server with the RIP in it.
The time you save by being able to work without the RIP taking all the processing power is so much nicer. Plus then you have the other machine for overflow, web browsing, email, etc. Nightvision;The laserwriter driver has a limited number of default page sizes. However, the HP Rip comes with 'PPD' files that have the larger page sizes you need.
It has been a while since I have set this up, but my recolection is that from the chooser you can select laserwriter and then click the setup button. The HP tech support guys can walk you through it if you like.
The support is free for the price of a phone call. That is the setup I use, however I cannot get the RIP to print directly to the plotter. I must first save the file to disk and then I open the file in the RIP. It works fine. Kurt;Thank you for taking an interest in this matter. I have heard that there are utilities that can check for corrupted fonts.
If you have advice on this I would appreciate it. I am posting a new topic in General Discussion to that very topic of font integrity and management. I have a Mac G4 that I use for Vectorworks. I also have a G3 that I use for less demanding programs.
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They are hooked up, along with the HP 455CA on an ethernet switch. What I do now is to print from a VW file to the G4 hard drive.
I launch the RIP in the G3. In the RIP I choose the files that are on the G4 drive. Then I click the green button that begins the processing and printing. I can also launch the RIP on the G4, but that ties up the G4 while it prints.
What I cannot do is use the 'Print' button in the rip. It results in a '-8993' error code. I can only use the 'File' button, thus saving to disk. From what you describe, it sounds like you are able to print directly to your second computer without saving to disk.
Is this correct, and if so how exactly do you do it? Thanks again for your help.
Aclarke69 wrote: Thanks Bob. I followed the instructions to the T on my Vista machine. When I got to step 7 and clicked ' Okay', the following message appeared: The folder you specified doesn't contain a compatible software driver for your device. If the folder contains a driver, make sure it is designed to work with Windows for x64-based systems. The only thing I can think of is the driver is not made for an x-64 based system. Oops - it was a critical piece of information missing there, that you are using an x64 system. You will need the x64 version of the driver, which I have never found.
Edit - I do not know how I missed this one, it shoud install on your x64 system. The drivers installed fine on my Windows 7 x64 system.