Neil Smith on Fri, 3 Aug 2001 23:00:41 +0200 (CEST)


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DeskJet 400 colour


Hi all,

I've got a HP DeskJet 400 and I'm trying to get it to print in colour. 
I've compiled pcl3 into Ghostscript, and with that I'm able to print PS
files in colour (and do things like call a2ps directly).  However, I
want apsfilter for the filtering, but that doesn't seem to like the
concept of colour DJ400s. 

pcl3opts suggests the following settings:

  gs -sDEVICE=pcl3 -sSubdevice=unspecold -dDryTime=10 -r300 \
     -sColourModel=CMY -dRasterGraphicsQuality=2   

and that works fine, producing colour output.

I've tried setting the colour mode manually in the SETUP procedure. 
I've tried adding COLOR=cmy to the apsfilter/lp/apsfilterrc file.  I've
tried printing something with the command 'lpr -C cmy text.txt'. 
Nothing seems to work: the printer keeps blinking, suggesting that it
wants a mono cartridge.

Can anyone help?  Ideally, what terms should I add to what files to
ensure the sSubdevice and sColourModel values are set as above?  Setting
dRasterGraphicsQuality would be nice too, as I don't think DJ400s
understand other presentation quality settings.  

Ta,

Neil.