HP Color LaserJet 5550 Printer series User Manual

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Additional drivers

The following drivers are not included on the CD-ROM, but are available from the Internet or
from HP Customer Care.

PCL 5c printer drivers for Windows 98, Me, NT 4.0, 2000, XP, and Server 2003.

OS/2 PCL 5c/6 printer driver.

OS/2 PS printer driver.

UNIX model scripts.

Linux drivers.

HP OpenVMS drivers.

Note

The OS/2 drivers are available from IBM and are packaged with OS/2. They are not
available for Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Korean, or Japanese.

Select the right printer driver for your needs

Select a printer driver based on the way that you use the printer. Certain printer features are
available only in the PCL 6 drivers. See the printer driver Help for available features.

Use the PCL 6 driver to take full advantage of printer features. For general office
printing, the PCL 6 driver is recommended to provide optimum performance and print
quality.

Use the PCL 5c driver if backward compatibility with previous PCL printer drivers or
older printers is necessary.

Use the PS driver if you are printing primarily from PostScript-specific programs such as
Adobe and Corel, for compatibility with PostScript Level 3 needs, or for PS font DIMM
support.

Note

The printer automatically switches between PS and PCL printer languages.

Printer driver Help

Each printer driver has Help screens that can be activated by using either the Help button,
the F1 button on the computer keyboard, or a question-mark symbol in the upper right corner
in the printer driver (depending on the Windows operating system used). These Help
screens give detailed information about the specific driver. Printer driver Help is separate
from your program Help.

Accessing the printer drivers

Use one of the following methods to access the printer drivers from your computer:

ENWW

Printer software

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