I think Grant may mean the Deskjet 700 series, which are PPA printers, 
in which the page has to be generated in software in the PC before 
being sent to the printer.

PPA printers have no ability to process plain text; they just throw away
ASCII data.  This is annoying if you print text from a UNIX machine a lot.

> Just stay away from the DeskJet 600 series.  They are "Winprinters"  The
> printer has no logic, no fonts, and no printhead control in it for most
> things.  The CPU controls the printer directly.  There is a driver for it,
> but currently no color (I have a DeskJet 694C on my Wintel box because the
> Linux driver stinks and HP won't release the specs so someone can make a
> better one)

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