From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 17 11: 4:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from posgate.acis.com.au (posgate.acis.com.au [203.14.230.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1070A14C0A for ; Wed, 17 Mar 1999 11:04:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au) Received: from bullseye.apana.org.au (uucp@localhost) by posgate.acis.com.au (8.9.2/8.9.2/Debian/GNU) with UUCP id GAA09633; Thu, 18 Mar 1999 06:01:20 +1100 (EST) Received: from bullseye.apana.org.au (central.apana.org.au [203.9.107.245]) by bullseye.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA09966; Wed, 17 Mar 1999 23:59:06 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au) Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 23:56:21 +1100 (EDT) From: Andrew MacIntyre To: Mike Jeays Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Which printers work with Ghostscript? In-Reply-To: <36EF207B.82810B26@statcan.ca> Message-ID: X-X-Sender: andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. -- Andrew I MacIntyre "These thoughts are mine alone..." E-mail: andrew.macintyre@aba.gov.au (work) | Snail: PO Box 370 andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au (play) | Belconnen ACT 2616 Fido: Andrew MacIntyre, 3:620/243.18 | Australia To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message