Re: HP Officejet Printer
- Original Message - From: dick hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 8:53 AM Subject: Re: HP Officejet Printer On 05 Jul Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-OfficeJet_4300 ...these printers are supported by the hpijs driver beginning from version 1.3. The driver supports resolutions only up to 600 dpi, head alignment settings stored in the printer are not made use of, so use a one-cartridge (CMY) printing mode in case of mis-alignments perfectly? - Original Message - From: dick hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] This printer works perfectly with apsfilter. The latter does /not/ need cups (luckely imho) but works very well with the standard unix lpd. OK, the definition for perfectly does not agree with my statement. Otoh, my laserjet uses 600dpi and that is (for normal use) quite good. If I need higher qualities I use a printshop. As I understood the OP is a home user and in that sence 600dpi is ok. As for the heads: you have a point there. I could live with that and would buy a one-head-cartridge though;-) And, most importantly (to me), NO cups ;-) Yeah, they are uncomfortable things to wear, aren't they? ;-) A long time ago I posted instructions to the list on how to replace cups with lpr, given -any- printer, -any- driver. What I have observed is the prevelance of the use of cups in the online guides for hooking up printers is because most people writing most of those guides out there really don't understand how all the programs interrelate with each other, and are merely copying other people's guides in how to set the things up. Just about all the online printer setup guides that use cups in the examples are tracable back to the instructions for setting up a printer in gnome, on a Linux box where the distribution had gnome preinstalled, since cups is also preinstalled. All cups does is muck with config files, it does not actually do any conversion. The engines that do the heavy lifting are ghostscript, which either converts postscript input direct to printerspeak, for the limited number of drivers compiled into it, or converts it to an intermediate format that is massaged by gimpprint, or the manufacturers driver (ie: hp's driver for example) into the printerspeak needed by the particular printer model. You do not need cups, or apsfilter for that matter, to plug the engines into each other. The other thing that is often missed is that for printers like the Epson stylus c84 that I have, or the officejet that the OP has, to get from postscript into the gross muck that these winprinters can understand, takes a huge amount of CPU cycles for anything complex. Pentium systems under 1Ghz need not apply. Ted ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HP Officejet Printer
On Fri, 7 Jul 2006, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: - Original Message - From: dick hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 8:53 AM Subject: Re: HP Officejet Printer On 05 Jul Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-OfficeJet_4300 ...these printers are supported by the hpijs driver beginning from version 1.3. The driver supports resolutions only up to 600 dpi, head alignment settings stored in the printer are not made use of, so use a one-cartridge (CMY) printing mode in case of mis-alignments perfectly? - Original Message - From: dick hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] This printer works perfectly with apsfilter. The latter does /not/ need cups (luckely imho) but works very well with the standard unix lpd. OK, the definition for perfectly does not agree with my statement. Otoh, my laserjet uses 600dpi and that is (for normal use) quite good. If I need higher qualities I use a printshop. As I understood the OP is a home user and in that sence 600dpi is ok. As for the heads: you have a point there. I could live with that and would buy a one-head-cartridge though;-) And, most importantly (to me), NO cups ;-) Yeah, they are uncomfortable things to wear, aren't they? ;-) A long time ago I posted instructions to the list on how to replace cups with lpr, given -any- printer, -any- driver. What I have observed is the prevelance of the use of cups in the online guides for hooking up printers is because most people writing most of those guides out there really don't understand how all the programs interrelate with each other, and are merely copying other people's guides in how to set the things up. Just about all the online printer setup guides that use cups in the examples are tracable back to the instructions for setting up a printer in gnome, on a Linux box where the distribution had gnome preinstalled, since cups is also preinstalled. All cups does is muck with config files, it does not actually do any conversion. The engines that do the heavy lifting are ghostscript, which either converts postscript input direct to printerspeak, for the limited number of drivers compiled into it, or converts it to an intermediate format that is massaged by gimpprint, or the manufacturers driver (ie: hp's driver for example) into the printerspeak needed by the particular printer model. You do not need cups, or apsfilter for that matter, to plug the engines into each other. The other thing that is often missed is that for printers like the Epson stylus c84 that I have, or the officejet that the OP has, to get from postscript into the gross muck that these winprinters can understand, takes a huge amount of CPU cycles for anything complex. Pentium systems under 1Ghz need not apply. Ted Could you either repost your lpr email or if you remember the subject? I have access to questions back toOct 1999 with 2.115 posts from you :) We have FreeBSDing on workstations pretty weill in hand (thanks Xorg/KDE) but printing remains beyond our grasp. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HP Officejet Printer
On 05 Jul Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-OfficeJet_4300 ...these printers are supported by the hpijs driver beginning from version 1.3. The driver supports resolutions only up to 600 dpi, head alignment settings stored in the printer are not made use of, so use a one-cartridge (CMY) printing mode in case of mis-alignments perfectly? - Original Message - From: dick hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] This printer works perfectly with apsfilter. The latter does /not/ need cups (luckely imho) but works very well with the standard unix lpd. OK, the definition for perfectly does not agree with my statement. Otoh, my laserjet uses 600dpi and that is (for normal use) quite good. If I need higher qualities I use a printshop. As I understood the OP is a home user and in that sence 600dpi is ok. As for the heads: you have a point there. I could live with that and would buy a one-head-cartridge though;-) And, most importantly (to me), NO cups ;-) -- dick -- http://nagual.nl/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 6.1 +++ The Power to Serve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HP Officejet Printer
Unfortunately it doesn't work with mine. I probably need to go with CUPS I just have no idea where to start, I haven't found any tutorial easy to understand yet. Kevin Kinsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: E. J. Cerejo wrote: I'm running FBSD 6.1 release and just got a new printer for my birthday, it's an HP Officejet 4315 all-in-one, I used to have an old HP Deskjet 842c and worked fine using apsfilter but I can't make this one print, I don't see any drivers for it using apsfilter either, is there a way to make this thing work? Dunno if it helps, but I print to an HP 6110 all-in-one with the ijs/DESKJET_930 driver and apsfilter with fairly decent results. Kevin Kinsey -- : is not an identifier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] EJC www.only7bucks.com - Yahoo! Copa 2006 - cobertura dos jogos em tempo real e tudo sobre a seleção brasileira! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HP Officejet Printer
On 04 Jul Anish Mistry wrote: On Tuesday 04 July 2006 20:53, E. J. Cerejo wrote: Anish Mistry [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: On Tuesday 04 July 2006 20:35, E. J. Cerejo wrote: I'm running FBSD 6.1 release and just got a new printer for my birthday, it's an HP Officejet 4315 all-in-one, I used to have an old HP Deskjet 842c and worked fine using apsfilter but I can't make this one print, I don't see any drivers for it using apsfilter either, is there a way to make this thing work? print/hplip Installing it is easy but how do I have to do to make it work, what files I have to configure? Does it work using apsfilter? I missed the apsfilter part. It uses cups. You need to have the printer attach as a ugen device, make the changes to devfs.rules in the pkg-message and add the necessary lines to rc.conf to start it all. This printer works perfectly with apsfilter. The latter does /not/ need cups (luckely imho) but works very well with the standard unix lpd. Install apsfilter with portinstall -rR apsfilter and you'll be happy. You can also go for cups, but make sure you read some installation papers on the net very carefully. Google is your friend. -- dick -- http://nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 6.1 +++ The Power to Serve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HP Officejet Printer
E. J. Cerejo wrote: I'm running FBSD 6.1 release and just got a new printer for my birthday, it's an HP Officejet 4315 all-in-one, I used to have an old HP Deskjet 842c and worked fine using apsfilter but I can't make this one print, I don't see any drivers for it using apsfilter either, is there a way to make this thing work? Dunno if it helps, but I print to an HP 6110 all-in-one with the ijs/DESKJET_930 driver and apsfilter with fairly decent results. Kevin Kinsey -- : is not an identifier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HP Officejet Printer
http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-OfficeJet_4300 ...these printers are supported by the hpijs driver beginning from version 1.3. The driver supports resolutions only up to 600 dpi, head alignment settings stored in the printer are not made use of, so use a one-cartridge (CMY) printing mode in case of mis-alignments perfectly? Ted - Original Message - From: dick hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 12:37 AM Subject: Re: HP Officejet Printer On 04 Jul Anish Mistry wrote: On Tuesday 04 July 2006 20:53, E. J. Cerejo wrote: Anish Mistry [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: On Tuesday 04 July 2006 20:35, E. J. Cerejo wrote: I'm running FBSD 6.1 release and just got a new printer for my birthday, it's an HP Officejet 4315 all-in-one, I used to have an old HP Deskjet 842c and worked fine using apsfilter but I can't make this one print, I don't see any drivers for it using apsfilter either, is there a way to make this thing work? print/hplip Installing it is easy but how do I have to do to make it work, what files I have to configure? Does it work using apsfilter? I missed the apsfilter part. It uses cups. You need to have the printer attach as a ugen device, make the changes to devfs.rules in the pkg-message and add the necessary lines to rc.conf to start it all. This printer works perfectly with apsfilter. The latter does /not/ need cups (luckely imho) but works very well with the standard unix lpd. Install apsfilter with portinstall -rR apsfilter and you'll be happy. You can also go for cups, but make sure you read some installation papers on the net very carefully. Google is your friend. -- dick -- http://nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 6.1 +++ The Power to Serve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
HP Officejet Printer
I'm running FBSD 6.1 release and just got a new printer for my birthday, it's an HP Officejet 4315 all-in-one, I used to have an old HP Deskjet 842c and worked fine using apsfilter but I can't make this one print, I don't see any drivers for it using apsfilter either, is there a way to make this thing work? EJC www.only7bucks.com - Abra sua conta no Yahoo! Mail - 1GB de espaço, alertas de e-mail no celular e anti-spam realmente eficaz. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HP Officejet Printer
On Tuesday 04 July 2006 20:35, E. J. Cerejo wrote: I'm running FBSD 6.1 release and just got a new printer for my birthday, it's an HP Officejet 4315 all-in-one, I used to have an old HP Deskjet 842c and worked fine using apsfilter but I can't make this one print, I don't see any drivers for it using apsfilter either, is there a way to make this thing work? print/hplip -- Anish Mistry [EMAIL PROTECTED] AM Productions http://am-productions.biz/ pgpx9nylaEWFW.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: HP Officejet Printer
On Tuesday 04 July 2006 20:53, E. J. Cerejo wrote: Anish Mistry [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: On Tuesday 04 July 2006 20:35, E. J. Cerejo wrote: I'm running FBSD 6.1 release and just got a new printer for my birthday, it's an HP Officejet 4315 all-in-one, I used to have an old HP Deskjet 842c and worked fine using apsfilter but I can't make this one print, I don't see any drivers for it using apsfilter either, is there a way to make this thing work? print/hplip Installing it is easy but how do I have to do to make it work, what files I have to configure? Does it work using apsfilter? I missed the apsfilter part. It uses cups. You need to have the printer attach as a ugen device, make the changes to devfs.rules in the pkg-message and add the necessary lines to rc.conf to start it all. -- Anish Mistry [EMAIL PROTECTED] AM Productions http://am-productions.biz/ pgpgifTyWWjHY.pgp Description: PGP signature
