AFPL GS 6.5 adn printer driver changes

[Oliver Schurr <schurro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Folks

I just installed AFPL GS 6.5 and had a hard time finding a driver for my
hp deskjet 697C printer because the previous driver for it has been
REMOVED from the ghostscript source, and in addition it
does no longer compile correctly if you download and TRY TO
install it .  Therefore I found and used the PCL3 driver from 

http://home.t-online.de/home/Martin.Lottermoser/pcl3.html

that worked fine.  This is the SUCCESSOR to the 'hpdj' driver listed and
included in APSFILTER 6.0.0.  This PCL3 driver is specificly designed for
those newer deskjets and has much more options and printer modes than the
'cdj550' driver in AFPL GS 6.5.

Now there may have to be a few changes made in APSFILTER, I think.

1) the older GS driver for dj670, dj9xx etc, which still are listen in
APSFILTER have to be removed, UNLESS some of those are also contained in
the 'cdj550' driver in GS 6.5. That one is still included.

2) the new PCL3 driver and/or all the supported 'subdevices' (as they are
called in PCL3) need to be included in APSFILTER in the list of those 3rd 
party printer drivers.

I know that's a very long list of subdevices but that's what is it may
take to get it to work in the currect version of AFPL GS.

What do you guys think?

Oliver Schurr