From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 16 21:33: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from revolution.3-cities.com (revolution.3-cities.com [204.203.224.155]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48B121523F for ; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 21:32:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kstewart@3-cities.com) Received: from 3-cities.com (kenn1003.bossig.com [208.26.241.3]) by revolution.3-cities.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA09134; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 21:32:27 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <36EF3E70.4BA620B6@3-cities.com> Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 21:32:32 -0800 From: Kent Stewart Organization: Columbia Basin Virtual Community Project X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Jeays Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Which printers work with Ghostscript? References: <36EF207B.82810B26@statcan.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message