Re: Can't get apsfilter to work with my HP Deskjet 690C

[Jonas <jonasb@xxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 08 Feb 2003 18:53:52 +0100
Carsten Neumann <deltor@snafu.de> wrote:

> On Thu, 06 Feb 2003, Jonas wrote:
> > The ghostscript port that I'm using does
> > rm -r $PKG/usr/share/ghostscript/7.05/{examples,doc}
> > I removed that line and recompiled ghostscript.
> 
> Strange that ESP Ghostscript thingy:
> Tons of devices, but no doc or examples! 8-)
> 
> > 
> > I can print tiger.ps. When I printed vasarely.ps, not much got
> > printed, but it took a long time to print, maybe thats because my
> > printer can't print colors for some strange reason. I have tried to
> > print all the ps-files in /usr/share/ghostscript/7.05/examples and
> > some others, but only tiger.ps and vasarely.ps got printed. On the
> > others, all that got printed was some lines of postscript on the
> > first page, and then the printer wanted more paper, it wrote
> > postscript on some of the papers that it got, on some it didn't
> > write anything, it continued to do so until I powered it off.
> 
> I recommend using hpijs.
> The client part (ijs) is already compiled into your ghostscript.
> So you only need to install the server part (hpijs).
> 
> I have a 970cxi and none the built-in drivers worked.
> Now I'm using hpijs and everything seems to be fine (although I
> couldn't try the color modes of the latest versions because I ran out
> of color ink).
> 
> > 
> > $ lpq
> > Printer: lp@localhost 'cdj670;r=300x300;q=medium;c=full;p=a4;m=auto'
> >  Queue: no printable jobs in queue
> 
> This is all I wanted to see, just to make sure that the correct
> spooler is used. ;-)
> 
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> 

I installed hpijs and configured apsfilter to use it. Everyting I have
tried to print got printed.

Why doesn't the cdj670 driver work? It worked when I used Debian.