Re: hpdj990Cxi and V.6.1.1.: only monochrome printing possible

["P. U. (Uli) Kruppa" <root@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Andreas Klemm wrote:

> Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 08:26:51 +0200
> From: Andreas Klemm <andreas@apsfilter.org>
> Reply-To: apsfilter-help@apsfilter.org
> To: apsfilter-help@apsfilter.org
> Subject: Re: hpdj990Cxi and V.6.1.1.: only monochrome printing possible
>
> On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 09:59:19PM +0000, P. U. (Uli) Kruppa wrote:
> > The first attachment (log-6.0.0) is the logfile of 6.0.0
> > (colourful print), the second of 6.1.1 (b&w).
>
> Its quite simple. You use different gs driver.
>
> > + gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dSAFER -sDEVICE=cdj970 -sPAPERSIZE=a4 -sOutputFile=- -dDuplex=0 -_
>
> cdj970 is a driver of its own, uses color as default.
>
> > + gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dSAFER -sDEVICE=hpdj -sModel=unspec -sPAPERSIZE=a4 -sOutputFile=- -_
>
> hpdj driver is from another author who decided that it should default
> to b&w.
Yes indeed. As I can see now, I always (i.e. since
September, when I bought my HP DJ990Cxi) used the
cdj970-driver. It behaves as expected in 6.1.1 .

I think for human beeings like me your setup-menu is a
little misleading. I do not know about differrent authors. I
just saw hpdj, jumped to it and selected the hpdj970C .
Better would be just one single list of all printer-types.

> Print using: lpr -C high:present:cmyk
Actually you will see colours, but it makes a mess out of
the subtractive (CMY) triangle.
I think the author should change his default politics.
Simple people like me will prefer their documents to be
printed the way they created them. There are enough manuals
to be read to create something decent with tex, gimp,
StarOffice, OpenOffice, qcad, MuPAD, gnuplot, groff
or whatever else.

Anyway: Thanks for for your patience.
Can I do some more testing, so that you can put the
hpdj 990Cxi into your list?

Uli.

> As far as I remember you only can print color in high resolution and
> presentation mode. You should read the hpdj driver docu. If you run
> FreeBSD, then the files are installed by my gs port automatically.
> On other systems you might have to grab for the driver sources.
> You can use at least FreeBSD ports collection browser, to look for
> the URL, how to reach applications homepages and download locations:
> http://www.freebsd.org/ports
>
> 	Andreas ///
>
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