Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 19:18:39 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> To: Christopher Raven <c.raven@ukonline.co.uk> Cc: noharas@mail.findlay.edu, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: printer, EPSON Stylus color 850, CANON BJC-6000 Message-ID: <372D077F.3D4A0FD8@3-cities.com> References: <199905021111.AA90571012@mail.findlay.edu> <372C95D8.8AD33B3F@3-cities.com> <372CF911.B2566CC1@ukonline.co.uk>
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I can run Ghostscript too but I didn't consider that a Postscript printer. You are doing ESC/P2 or what ever Epson uses. My printers all do Hpcl. The last time I tried a fill using Ghostview, a circle developed white lines at any resolution over 150x150. For me, a postscript printer was one you send Postscript to and it prints it. Everything else was a substitute. I have an ulterior motive because I have a number of Window based Adobe products that do document preparation and they need a real postscript printer. You can fiddle around and make things work but they are never like you were using the real thing. The documents never quite print the same way either. Ghostscript never did PhotoRET II in the HP's. They didn't even do 600x600 and that would be going back to 300x300 or worse images. Your point is one that I have sort of ignored. I have a way around my problem. I know the commands to put the HP into HiRes mode. Using GhostView basically cost me nothing, which I like even better. I have a guy that I work for occasionally and he needs the HiRes Ghostview output out for an HP890. There is a setup of a color inkjet. Perhaps it could be a project for him <grin>. I will also have to setup my Windows NT server to print to my Unix box. I have Lpdsvcs installed in NT. I might as well try going the other way for a change. You never learn anything without trying. Kent Christopher Raven wrote: > > I run an Epson 800 no problems here. I use the apsfilter <package> and > Ghostscript with as I say, no apparant problems - maybe a little bit > slower than windows at printing, but never locks or crashes with mega > printouts ;-) > > rgds, > > CR > > Kent Stewart wrote: > > > Shinichi Nohara wrote: > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > I want to buy a printer whether EPSON STYLUS COLOR 850 or > > > CANON BJC-6000. Can I use both of them on FreeBSD? > > > > > > suported printer language: > > > > > > EPSON Stylus Color 850 > > > IBM X24E, Epson LQ, Epson ESC/P2, PostScipt2 > > > http://www.epson.com/printer/inkjet/sty850/ > > > > The way I read that web page they have Postscript 2 for Win9x/Mac OS. > > That means to me that the postscript is being done at the driver level > > in Windows and on the Mac but not at the hardware level on the > > printer. You need Postscript 2 hardware in your printer for *nix to > > use it. > > > > There is a LexMark Optra and the Xerox C20 that have Postscript 2 > > hardware. > > > > Kent > > > > Kent > > > > > > CANON BJC-6000 > > > I don't know. > > > http://www.ccsi.canon.com/goto.shtml?/bjc/index.html > > > > > > Thank you. > > > > > > Shin N. > > > > > > -- > > > shin@Findlay > > > > > > -- > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > -- > > Kent Stewart > > Richland, WA > > > > mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com > > http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html > > > > Hunting Archibald Stewart, b 1802 in Ballymena, Antrim Co., NIR > > http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/genealogy/archibald_stewart.html > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html Hunting Archibald Stewart, b 1802 in Ballymena, Antrim Co., NIR http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/genealogy/archibald_stewart.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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