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Mac Intel driver for HP Deskjet 840C



After upgrading to an Intel iMac, my HP Deskjet 840C started to produce garbled output. Fonts were too large and clipped at the bottom. Apparently the HP Deskjet 3.3 driver is broken on Intel computers. Solution is to download and install the HP Deskjet 2.7.1 driver. This is a PPC driver and will work via Rosetta, but output looks good.

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3 Responses to “Mac Intel driver for HP Deskjet 840C”

  1. Rob says:
    September 14th, 2007 at 03:09

    Thanks for that. Your blog is the only place online where I found a hint of what was causing my problem with the same printer model. (Unfortunately I’m finding it difficult to download the 2.7.1 printer driver from HP. Keeps timing out.)

  2. Charlie says:
    September 23rd, 2007 at 14:09

    Lot of thanks !!!

    I’m a mac noob and I started becoming crazy !!!

    Now I can use my old printer.

  3. Charlie says:
    September 23rd, 2007 at 15:09

    Rob !!

    You have’it there:

    http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareDownloadIndex?softwareitem=dj-13823-4&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&product=59868&os=219&lang=en

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