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ok, the hp tech support has been no help in this all year.
Using the most current drivers, updates, ect.
Using the same printing specs on preview or acrobat (mac) and acrobat (xp, or 2000 on fusion or parallels), I get totally different print quality results. The mac substantially inferior to the pc printing.
I'm really trying to wean myself from using the PC partitions at all, but printing is really bad using the mac side. ALL OTHER FACTORS ARE EQUAL. same paper, same quality specs, just different results. After trying to get HP support to verify, they said it was a leopard issue. I don't recall any issues using the Tiger OS from Macbook, but can't be sure.
Anyone else having print issues with HP from mac to PC?

Sam Beaver wrote:
ok, the hp tech support has been no help in this all year.
Why does this not surprise me?
Using the most current drivers, updates, ect.
Using the same printing specs on preview or acrobat (mac) and acrobat (xp, or 2000 on fusion or parallels), I get totally different print quality results. The mac substantially inferior to the pc printing.
I'm really trying to wean myself from using the PC partitions at all, but printing is really bad using the mac side. ALL OTHER FACTORS ARE EQUAL. same paper, same quality specs, just different results. After trying to get HP support to verify, they said it was a leopard issue. I don't recall any issues using the Tiger OS from Macbook, but can't be sure.
Anyone else having print issues with HP from mac to PC?
Which kind of 'HP 130'? In any case, go to <http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/MacOSX/hpijs> and see if your printer is on the supported list. I've found that those drivers work much better than the ones which ship with the printer, _despite being developed by HP employees_. Why HP doesn't ship those drivers instead of the dreck they do ship is something you'd have to ask them.
These guys <http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/MacOSX.php3> also have drivers which are better than the ones that ship with HP's printers. Check them out and see if your printer is supported.

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