RE: Driver installed, DeskJet 960C doesn't like it

[Michael Loßin <phallobst@xxxxxx>]

On 02-Jan-02 Jens Woinowski wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> when I try to print to my HP DeskJet 960C, only the "working" light
> blinks, after some five minutes the error light blinks.
> 
> My configuration is:
> SuSE 7.0, default Kernel 2.2
  ^^^^^^^^ oh no...
> apsfilter 7.1.1 (deinstalled SuSE "apsfilter") no error messages
                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ oh yes... :^)

> ghostscript 6.52 (compiled it myself, no error messages)
> hpijs 1.0 (compiled into ghostscript)
> installed printer with original apsfilter setup (ijs/DESKJET_960)

Does it make a difference between using gs6.52 and gs7.03 ?
(Probably not...)

> I compared the settings apsfilter produces to those on the HP page
> and they
> look correct.

I'm afraid that's all apsfilter can do... It's just a frontend
for the driver.

> I get no error messages when generating a test page with apsfilter
> SETUP and
> none if printing to the queue (and no mail from the spooler...)

There are no errors, as far as apsfilter is concerned, so
you won't see any messages.

> So my questions are:
> 1. Did somebody else encounter that problem?
> 2. Could there be something else I made wrong? (Besides from using
> SuSE, it 
> sucks more and more, but I got used to most of its "specialties" ;-)
> 3. If the answer to 2. is (probably) no: Is it a problem with
> apsfilter
>    or a problem with the HP drivers?

My guess is that the ijs driver generates faulty initialisation
code, so your printer gets stuck in there. Have you ever been
able to create correct output by calling gs on the command line
and sending that to the printer in "raw" mode?


Maybe you want to try different drivers:
   gimp-print:  DeskJet 900C series  (stp/pcl-900)
   hpijs v0.97: DeskJet 960C         (hpijs/DJ9xxVIP)
   hpijs v0.97: DeskJet 900C series  (hpijs/DJ9xx)

These are more general drivers that tend to use less strict
initialisation strings, since they claim to be compatible with
a wider range of printers.

(IIRC, hpijs-1.0 still supports the old 0.97 interface.)


HTH
Michael