Re: apsfilter question

[Andreas Klemm <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Steve,

the hpdj printer defaults to b/w, you need additional
commandline options to squeeze colour out of it.

Try something like this

	lpr -C high:presentation:cmyk test.ps

Look at the hpdj sources. Every driver has to be tweaked
a little different ...

Another thing is, that hpdj knows an unknown driver.
The supporter drivers enable checking of command line
options. Since my HP 970 Cxi also wasn't directly supported
by HPDJ, I was forced to play with this unknown driver.

Using this you can use every combination of HPDJ driver
option (gs commandline option) if it makes sense for
your printer or not. Then it is trial and error what makes
sense and what not, since every printer behaves slightly
different ...

So please read the HPDJ info file, whats possible and
try what fits best ...

Then you have perhaps to tweak bin/apsfilter to create
an own driver, I mark these dirvers with a trailing "u",
so that you then can create your own lpr -C options for
apsfilter, to get the right thing ...

Look what I have done for 970 printer, then you know,
what I mean ...

Another thing is, have also a look at pcl3 driver, which
is the hpdj successor .... maybe some things are better
supported using the new driver ...

But also for this drriver there is certainly an unknown
printer model, so that you have to "cook" your own apsfilter
pseudo printer within pcl3 ....

And please use the mailinglists, so that people can use
the mailinglist archives or grap the glimpse database for
keywords, o.k. ?! ;-)

	Andreas ///

On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 09:52:16PM -0600, Steve Price wrote:
> Andreas,
> 
> I finally got around to buying my wife a printer for her photography
> business.  She has to printout a bunch of different varieties of file
> formats and I thought "Wow this will be a good thing to put FreeBSD
> and Apsfilter to work on". :)
> 
> Anyway everything was a breeze to setup but I didn't find this
> particular printer as being supported.  The printer is one of those
> all-in-one HP deals.  It is an HP OfficeJet K80.  I got it work fine
> with text and postscript so far with the hpdj driver.  However, I
> haven't been able to get color to work.  Do you know of another color
> HP printer that might be similar to this one?  What kind of information
> would I need to dig up to either write a driver for this printer myself
> or get someone else to do it for me?
> 
> Thanks for such a good product at a really great price. :)
> 
> -Steve

	Andreas ///

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