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Is it feasable to translate a Chinese HP Driver to english?


I apologize for the naivety of this question, I've some programming experience, but none writing drivers.

We have an older HP DesignJet 5000ps plotter. The only Windows 7 driver we were able to find for it is in Chinese... which works ok until we need to change the settings (there was an employee who spoke Mandarin, but he/she left).

I'm assuming, for the driver to work with windows properly, the source code is in English and simply the user interface is in Mandarin, so if I could access it, it would be a matter of changing the output for the various display options.

Thank you for your time.


Solution

  • It looks like the following link has the English driver you are looking for: http://h20564.www2.hp.com/hpsc/swd/public/readIndex?sp4ts.oid=58144

    You can choose the language and the operating system version from the dropdown menus. If you have a newer Windows, you can run the software with XP compatibility settings if there are any problems.