From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 10 1:50:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1E7737B401; Fri, 10 Aug 2001 01:50:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (root@spare0.gsoft.com.au [203.38.152.114]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA13822; Fri, 10 Aug 2001 18:20:32 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.7 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <6806.997424255@critter> Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 18:20:32 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Poul-Henning Kamp Subject: RE: Ghostscript 6.51 + HP printer = WOW! Cc: hackers@freebsd.org 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 On 10-Aug-2001 Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > The new ghostscript 6.51 has integrated the HPIJS backends for HP printers. > > HPIJS is written by HP and contains most of their weird colormunging > technologies. > > I managed to compile a 6.51 yesterday and ran it on my HP1220C printer and I > can > only say "WOW!". I beats the pants of all the other HP/PCL/whatever > backends > in ghostscript. > > Highly recommended! The Epson 880 etc drivers made by the Gimp folks are pretty damn nice too. Photo printing takes a long time (like 20-30 minutes :) but looks _amazing_ --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message