Re: Fedora 10 and plotters? - OT

2009-06-11 Thread DJ Delorie
Alan Cox writes: > There are lots of gotchas with trying to get normal printing working > - all the bitmaps vanish (naturally enough) and there are a lot of > bitmaps lurking in some postscript output. Just FYI, most (if not all) HP "DesignJet" series are in real life wide-format inkjet printers

Re: Fedora 10 and plotters? - OT

2009-06-11 Thread Robin Laing
Kevin Kempter wrote: Hi All; I'm a database consultant so I'm forever printing large database models onto 25 sheets of letter sized paper and taping them together - tiresome. I've found a used plotter, an HP DesignJet 750C - a 36" color plotter with automatic roll feed and cutter. I w

Re: Fedora 10 and plotters? - OT

2009-06-11 Thread DJ Delorie
Kevin Kempter writes: > I'm wondering if anyone out there has any experience running an HP > plotter via Linux, are there any gotcha's? do I have to tweak > anything to tell the printer (and Linux) that I'm printing to 36" > paper as opposed to 24"? Will the automatic roll feed and cutter > just

Re: Fedora 10 and plotters? - OT

2009-06-11 Thread Alan Cox
> I'm wondering if anyone out there has any experience running an HP plotter > via > Linux, are there any gotcha's? do I have to tweak anything to tell the > printer > (and Linux) that I'm printing to 36" paper as opposed to 24"? Will the > automatic roll feed and cutter just work? etc.. I ru

Fedora 10 and plotters? - OT

2009-06-11 Thread Kevin Kempter
Hi All; I'm a database consultant so I'm forever printing large database models onto 25 sheets of letter sized paper and taping them together - tiresome. I've found a used plotter, an HP DesignJet 750C - a 36" color plotter with automatic roll feed and cutter. I walked thru part of the cups a