From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Nov 11 15:34: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E64E637B405 for ; Sun, 11 Nov 2001 15:33:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fABNWxL02887; Mon, 12 Nov 2001 00:33:00 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: "Louis A. Mamakos" Cc: Julian Elischer , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HP deskjet 940 (color) and FreeBSD In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 11 Nov 2001 17:30:31 EST." <200111112230.fABMUVE39695@whizzo.transsys.com> Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 00:32:59 +0100 Message-ID: <2885.1005521579@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp 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 In message <200111112230.fABMUVE39695@whizzo.transsys.com>, "Louis A. Mamakos" writes: >> In message , 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