From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 16 20:42:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADAE914CFC for ; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 20:42:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id PAA19195; Wed, 17 Mar 1999 15:11:46 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id PAA69954; Wed, 17 Mar 1999 15:11:45 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19990317151145.A429@lemis.com> Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 15:11:45 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Mike Jeays , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Which printers work with Ghostscript? References: <36EF207B.82810B26@statcan.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <36EF207B.82810B26@statcan.ca>; from Mike Jeays on Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 10:24:43PM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, 16 March 1999 at 22:24:43 -0500, Mike Jeays wrote: > I am about to buy one of the current printers for home use, > and would like to know if they will work by piping output > through Ghostscript. > > I have version : Aladdin Ghostscript 5.10 (1997-11-23), > with support for the following devices: > > Available devices: > x11 x11alpha x11cmyk x11gray2 x11mono sxlcrt ap3250 appledmp bj10e > > [snip] > > Will any of these work with an HP 695C, for example? I don't know. What is the 695C? > Are there more up-to-date drivers for current printers that I > can add? Not that I know of. > Is there a decsription of what each of these device codes means? Again, not that I know of. In the past, I've tended to look in the source, but it's frequently not much more help. What I have found is that just about any HP-compatible laser printer is not a problem. I'd suspect that you won't have trouble with the 695C, but I can't confirm that suspicion. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message