Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 00:32:59 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM> Cc: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HP deskjet 940 (color) and FreeBSD Message-ID: <2885.1005521579@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 11 Nov 2001 17:30:31 EST." <200111112230.fABMUVE39695@whizzo.transsys.com>
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In message <200111112230.fABMUVE39695@whizzo.transsys.com>, "Louis A. Mamakos" writes: >> In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0111111024080.89663-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>, Julian Elischer writes: >> >> >Rumour has it that the pcl3 or hpdj drivers in ghostscript are supposed >> >to be very good (writtenby HP?) but >> >what's the secret to making them do colour? >> >> You want the HP developed hpijs driver. This is what I use for my >> HP 1220 printer, you may need to change the DeviceName: >> >> /usr/local/bin/gs -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -q \ >> -sDEVICE=DJ9xx \ >> -dPrintMode=1 -r300 \ >> -sOutputFile=- - | dd obs=64k 2>/dev/null && exit 0 > >Will the hpijs driver work with the PCL printers? When I looked at >the docs, I was left with the impression that the driver supported >the "Windows" printers. The docs didn't mention the hp870 printer >that I had. There is a webpage here: http://hpinkjet.sourceforge.net/ Basically, for the supported printers, you get the full quality of the printer with ghostscript. No other ghostscript drivers contain the HP magic color dithering code... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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