From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Nov 11 14: 0:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from InterJet.elischer.org (c421509-a.pinol1.sfba.home.com [24.7.86.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAB9437B41C; Sun, 11 Nov 2001 14:00:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost.elischer.org [127.0.0.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA90448; Sun, 11 Nov 2001 13:44:06 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 13:44:05 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer To: Nils Holland Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, phk@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HP deskjet 940 (color) and FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <20011111212120.C4935-100000@jodie.ncptiddische.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Well it prints in b/w really well, Just not in colour.... however I just found the apsfilter entry for cjd880 and that seems to work a treat. I don't understand.. there seem to be a plethora of device drivers for hp and yet there is little info on which is best... oh well, I'm happy now at least.. thanks for your information... I'll try the djc970 driver again some time.. On Sun, 11 Nov 2001, Nils Holland wrote: > On Sun, 11 Nov 2001, Julian Elischer wrote: > > > Does anyone have success in getting one of these > > (or similar) printing color from USB? > > > > using Ghostscript 6.52 it does ok with graphics > > and text in B/W > > > > I can get gimp to produce colour > > and in apsfilter I can select the gimp output drivers and get > > rather 'crude' colour, but if I select the hp drivers in ghostscript > > (even the pcl3 of hpdj) I just get Black and white testpages > > from apsfilter. (I get a cruddy colour one if I select gimp drivers) > > I guess this should have been asked on -questions, but anyway: I guess > that you will probably get your printer to produce some good color output > using ghostscript's "djc970" driver. It works really great with the > DeskJet 970 (in case anyone wondered where its name comes from), as well > with the DekJet 930C, as I have learned recently after buying that > printer. I guess that the djc970 would probably work well with any DeskJet > from the 900 line, so you should probably try it out! > > Greetings > Nils > > Nils Holland > Ti Systems - FreeBSD in Tiddische, Germany > http://www.tisys.org * nils@tisys.org > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message