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RE: Making a DeskJet 320 print
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Frank N. Stein)
Sun Nov 29 22:23:40 1998
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Date: Sun, 29 Nov 1998 20:26:00 -0600 (CST)
From: "Frank N. Stein" <kcsmart@microlink.net>
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On 30-Nov-98 Jeff complained about Making a DeskJet 320 print:
> Out of the box (since 4.2), I've never had any problem printing.
> However, after I recently had to reinstall my system, I can no longer
> print on my DJ 320. Now, I see in the printing HOWTO that it's not
> supported with the printcap HP filters. I seem to remember (in my
> FreeBSD days) that there used to be alternative filters for DeskJets.
> Is there a particular one that is the best--which should I use? I'm
> not
> sure what 4.2 originally installed/configured for me, because it
> always
> worked and so I never looked.
>
> I've tried using printtool to test print pages using each of the HP
> filters, the PostScript filter, and the plain text filter--printer
> just
> spews crap for each of these (ranging from "if this is all you see,
> enable LF->CR/LF translation" (how?) to "no way to print this type of
> input file: English text"). During class, I do a fair amount of PS
> printing, so I need that support. Other than that, I'm not too
> particular. Is there a special page for configuring HP printers? I
> tried also to search the archives, but I got some kind of broker
> error
> for archive.redhat.com.
You might try upgrading ghostscript and ghostview (ghostscript in
particular) since you'll find additional printer support builtin. At
least 5.10 for ghostscript should do the job.
A lot of docs to wade through to find out what you need but, it should
be there. Also, there's a good chance you can find a helpful
ghostscript page that will tell you exactly what you need to do to get
it to work.
Lastly, there's a pdf doc for using the later versions and it contains
mucho info on printers and setup. Can't recall where I got it but, I
could possibly locate or send it if needed.
Won't be much help with versions released with 4.2 -> 5.2 so you'll
need to upgrade to make much use of it.
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Excuse my english; I went to US public school.
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