Re: HP Deskjet 895xi

[Andreas Klemm <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 11:49:40AM +0100, David Epstein wrote:
> Some time ago, I succeeded in getting my HP Deskject 895xi to print
> from linux. Now a new version of linux has been installed and it no
> longer works, but I have forgotten what I did.
> 
> One of the things that is going wrong is that gs does not recognize
> the device. Last time I think I got help from the web page of
> M.Gelhaus. However the address I had then no longer works.
> 
> Does anyone know how to do this? I need step-by-step instructions?

gs -h shows you, which driver are compiled in.
If the driver is not compiled in, you have to 
a) get a gs binary distribution (RPM, whatever) with full driver
   support or
b) build it newly yourself

One remaining problem might be, if we speak of a gs 3rd party
driver. Then you have to look, where the diffs are in the internet,
patch gs sources manually and then configure and compile and install.

FreeBSD ports collection contains some 3rd party drivers.
There is a dialog(1) based install script which guides you
through the build process.

Linux ... don't know ... somebody elses problem (not mine) ;-)

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