Lighthouse Posted November 5, 2015 Share Posted November 5, 2015 I have an older HP Designjet 500 that works fine with windows 7&8. I would like to upgrade to Windows 10 (for other reasons), but am concerned that the printer won't work with 10. I've had bad experiences in the past where I've had to abandon printers after upgrading Windows, as there is no driver support. Does anyone have this plotter, and can you use it with 10? thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arcadian Posted November 5, 2015 Share Posted November 5, 2015 Hi I changed over to W10 for a brief episode and my HP500 worked fine. I changed back to W7, though, because my 3 Samsung monitors were giving me a real hard time. Will be sticking with W7 for a while yet. Andy Smith Arcadian Design Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lbuttery Posted November 5, 2015 Share Posted November 5, 2015 many times printing to PDF first bypasses driver issues Lew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NRST8TRKR Posted November 5, 2015 Share Posted November 5, 2015 David, I have a designjet 500 and have gone to windows 10 and have had no problems. Had this printer cleaned and a new cable installed last winter and asked the guy then about win 10 and he said then it would be OK but that hp is going to suspend support of this model soon.Ordered another cable at that time to be sure I could make as much out of this machine as possible. The guy told me the 500 has been just to good a machine. Have a great week end coming up,Ken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chief58 Posted November 6, 2015 Share Posted November 6, 2015 I had trouble with my designjet and got a program call Winline and it is made with drivers so that I could print with it, not sure if the have the drivers so as to print using win10, this is there website if you want to check them out http://www.winline.com/eval.html, have upgraded my 500 since and don't have it anymore to try it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lighthouse Posted November 6, 2015 Author Share Posted November 6, 2015 thanks a lot for the replies, I will take the plunge! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wingding5 Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 David, I have a designjet 500 and have gone to windows 10 and have had no problems. Had this printer cleaned and a new cable installed last winter and asked the guy then about win 10 and he said then it would be OK but that hp is going to suspend support of this model soon.Ordered another cable at that time to be sure I could make as much out of this machine as possible. The guy told me the 500 has been just to good a machine. Have a great week end coming up,Ken Ken, What driver are you using with your DJ 500 and Wind. 10. I can not print from Chief at all but can print from .pdf. Adobe can do it but not Chief. Any other idea's someone has would be great. Chief just gives me a "Low DPI 0" error and does not work. Support says they can do anything for me, even thou I have no problem with other programs..... thanks, andrew Ch6-Ch17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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