We modify Hörmander's well-known weak type (1,1) condition for
integral operators (in a weakened version due to Duong and
McIntosh) and present a weak type $(p,p)$ condition for arbitrary
operators.
Given an operator $A$ on $L_2$ with a bounded $H^\infty$ calculus,
we show as an application the $L_r$-boundedness of the $H^\infty$
calculus for all $r\in(p,q)$, provided the semigroup $(e^{-tA})$
satisfies suitable weighted $L_p\to L_q$-norm estimates with
$2\in(p,q)$.
This generalizes results due to Duong, McIntosh and Robinson for
the special case $(p,q)=(1,\infty)$ where these weighted norm
estimates are equivalent to Poisson-type heat kernel bounds for
the semigroup $(e^{-tA})$. Their results fail to apply in many
situations where our improvement is still applicable, e.g. if $A$
is a Schrödinger operator with a singular potential, an elliptic
higher order operator with bounded measurable coefficients or an
elliptic second order operator with singular lower order terms.