Re: hpijs poor quality, please help...

[Carsten Neumann <deltor@xxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Antoine Jacoutot wrote:
> Hi !  
>    
>  I'm trying to make my Hp Deskjet 970Cxi works with LPD using apsfilter.  
>  So far, it works, but the output quality is very poor.  
>  I'm using the ijs/DESKJET_970 (hpijs) driver since it is supposed to be the  
>  best filter for that printer (I remember having great printing quality under  
>  Linux with hpijs).  
>  Anyone having that kind of setup (Hp Deskjet+hpijs) that could help me 
> improve  
>  printing quality ?  
>    
>  Here is my printer details in my /etc/printcap:  
>    
>  hpdeskjet_hpijs|ijs/DESKJET_970;r=1200x1200;q=photo;c=full;p=a4;m=auto:\  
>      :lp=/dev/ulpt0:\  
>      :if=/usr/local/etc/apsfilter/basedir/bin/apsfilter:\  
>      :sd=/var/spool/lpd/hpdeskjet_hpijs:\  
>      :lf=/var/spool/lpd/hpdeskjet_hpijs/log:\  
>      :af=/var/spool/lpd/hpdeskjet_hpijs/acct:\  
>      :mx#0:\  
>      :sh:  
>    
>  I have ghostscript-gnu-nox11-7.05_3 and hpijs-1.3.1 under  
>  FreeBSD-4.7-STABLE-p3.  
>  Thanks in advance.  

Hi Antoine,

if you look into the doc of hpijs-1.3.1 you can see that 1200x1200 dpi is only available
in HiRes mode.
On the other hand apsfilter currently only supports up to Photo mode (max. 600x600 dpi).

Lower the resolution to 600x600 dpi or
change quality to hires in /etc/printcap and change/extend the script (driver/ijs/DESKJET_920)
according to this.

Please give feedback since I also own a 970Cxi and I am curious but currently unable to test this
because of lack of ink. :-(

HTH, regards,

	Carsten

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