Re: cvs commit: ports/print/ghostscript-afpl Makefile distinfo

[Andreas Klemm <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 09:07:16PM +0000, Josef Karthauser wrote:
> Hi Andreas,
> 
> I've got an HP officejet G85 printer.
> The linuxprinters site shows that the HPIJS driver is the one to use for
> this printer, but the apsfilter code doesn't list it as a valid option.
> What needs to be done to add it to the list?
> 
> http://www.linuxprinting.org/execution.cgi?driver=hpijs&printer=421906&.submit=Show+execution+details

Report it to the apsfilter mailinglist and/or submit patches.

Technically you create a new entry in setup/printer-hpijs,
to point to the correct existing driver.

Then you look if you can choose an already existing printer driver.
This has an advantage for us, not to flood the CVS repository with
tens of equal scrips. To avoid such a bloat we created the
MAPPING file in the drivers subdir. So you can reuse an existing
driver script for a new printer.

You only have to be very carefully, that you really choose a proper
driver script. Sometimes some printer use (unforseeable) another
print resolution. BJC drivers arec currently known for this.
HPs are known to have print resolutions like 150,300,600,1200.
Epsons fit more a 180,360,720 scheme ...
BJCs are different ;-) Therefore the RPITA was higher as expected.
Little differences between their printers resulted in more driver
files instead being able to map it to a similar existing printer 
driver via MAPFILE.

Format of the mapfile is commented.

Feel free to contribute a set of patches. And please be so kind, to
test low, medium, high resolution ... That would be bland ...

	Andreas ///

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