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Date:      Tue, 16 Mar 1999 21:32:32 -0800
From:      Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com>
To:        Mike Jeays <jeays@statcan.ca>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Which printers work with Ghostscript?
Message-ID:  <36EF3E70.4BA620B6@3-cities.com>
References:  <36EF207B.82810B26@statcan.ca>

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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
> bj200
>    bjc600 bjc800 ccr cdeskjet cdjcolor cdjmono cdj500 cdj550 cdj850 cp50
>    declj250 deskjet djet500 djet500c dnj650c epson eps9mid eps9high
> epsonc
>    ibmpro imagen iwhi iwlo iwlq jetp3852 laserjet la50 la70 la75
> la75plus
>    lbp8 lips3 ln03 lj250 ljet2p ljet3 ljet3d ljet4 lj4dith ljetplus
> lj5mono
>    lj5gray lp2563 lp8000 m8510 necp6 oce9050 oki182 okiibm paintjet pj
>    pjetxl pjxl pjxl300 pxlmono pxlcolor r4081 sj48 st800 stcolor t4693d2
>    t4693d4 t4693d8 tek4696 uniprint xes dfaxhigh dfaxlow faxg3 faxg32d
> faxg4
>    tiffcrle tiffg3 tiffg32d tiffg4 epswrite pdfwrite pswrite bit bitrgb
>    bitcmyk bmpmono bmp16 bmp256 bmp16m cgmmono cgm8 cgm24 cif jpeg
> jpeggray
>    miff24 mgrmono mgrgray2 mgrgray4 mgrgray8 mgr4 mgr8 pcxmono pcxgray
> pcx16
>    pcx256 pcx24b pcxcmyk pbm pbmraw pgm pgmraw pgnm pgnmraw pnm pnmraw
> ppm
>    ppmraw pkm pkmraw pngmono pnggray png16 png256 png16m psmono psgray
>    sgirgb tiff12nc tiff24nc tifflzw tiffpack nullpage
> 
> Will any of these work with an HP 695C, for example?  I see from the
> Ghostscript FAQ that the Epson 400 and lexmark 1000 are "Windows only",
> and want to be sure I don't get such an abomination by mistake.
> 
> Are there more up-to-date drivers for current printers that I
> can add?
> 
> Is there a decsription of what each of these device codes means?
> 

I used this version on an NT workstation. I was able to find a
GhostView manual in PDF format at the GNU site, I think. It had a
discussion of what printers went with what code. You aren't going to
get PhotoRET II on a DJ890. It may only be 300x300. The source code is
there and you can download the HPCL commands at
http://www.hp.com/cposupport/eschome.html. This is their "Customer
Care" support page and you do a query on "deskjet command". One of the
postscript files had a fill and the hi-res had lines in it. I think
150x150 worked all right. There was a patch but the project had run
out of money and I didn't try it to see if it filled the lines in.

-- 
Kent Stewart
Richland, WA


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