From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 10 1:59: 8 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 C821C37B403 for ; Fri, 10 Aug 2001 01:59:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f7A8wnV09446; Fri, 10 Aug 2001 10:58:49 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: "Daniel O'Connor" Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ghostscript 6.51 + HP printer = WOW! In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 10 Aug 2001 18:20:32 +0930." Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 10:58:49 +0200 Message-ID: <9444.997433929@critter> 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 , "Daniel O'Connor" writes: > >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. Yeah, but until now you have not been able to use the PhotoRet stuff in the the HP's at all unless you ran winblows. >Photo printing takes a long time (like 20-30 minutes :) but looks _amazing_ Depends a lot on your connection/printer of course. -- 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