Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 23:56:21 +1100 (EDT) From: Andrew MacIntyre <andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au> To: Mike Jeays <jeays@statcan.ca> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Which printers work with Ghostscript? Message-ID: <Pine.OS2.3.95.990317234009.514B-100000@CENTRAL> In-Reply-To: <36EF207B.82810B26@statcan.ca>
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On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, Mike Jeays wrote:
> 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
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
{...}
> 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.
It should be possible to get usable results with one of the DeskJet
related drivers (underlined above). There is a file included with the gs
distribution which gives reasonably detailed info about the various
drivers. I know at least one person with a 695 who is very happy with the
printer, though he doesn't use it (yet) from a free Un*x environment.
Probably any of the non-Windows only Canon, Epson and HP inkjet printers
would be a reasonable choice, if for no other reason than they'll at least
print straight ASCII without even needing gs - my Epson Stylus Colo(u)r
200 certainly does.
> Are there more up-to-date drivers for current printers that I
> can add?
Probably in a later release of gs (5.50 is out I think), which you'd have
to install.
> Is there a decsription of what each of these device codes means?
Yes there is such docco in a file included in the gs source distribution.
My 2.2.6 system, with gs 5.10 installed via a package, has the docs
installed in /usr/local/share/ghostscript/5.10/docs.
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