[Gs-devel] Output to a Deskjet 882C under Linux?

[Ray Johnston]

"Dr. Evil"

The gs-devel at ghostscript.com mailing list is intended for use by those
developing enhancements to Ghostscript.

Ghostscript is unsupported, although Artifex Software and others do
work to fix bugs, support for specific printers is not generally
available.

In particular, the ink jet market is so fast paced and proprietary
with manufacturers striving to make their printers work better than
their competitor's (and use more ink) that support is virtually
impossible. HP, Lexmark, Epson and others do not generally document
their proprietary raster data formats and often embed "secrets" in
their Windows drivers that any outside agency cannot duplicate.

I suggest that you send your query to the comp.lang.postscript NNTP
news group in case someone has reverse engineered the Windows driver
and is willing to help you.

There is work underway to add hooks from GS to Omniprint which as I
understand it has driver information for lots of specific inkjet
printer, but I don't know if the HP 882 is one of them.

Good luck.

Regards,
Ray Johnston
Artifex Software Inc.
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"Dr. Evil" wrote:
> 
> Does anyone know if this is possible?  I downloaded the RPMs for gs5.5
> from HP's site, and installed it, and when I run gs --help, it lists
> the available drivers as:
> 
>    pjxl300 pjetxl cdj850 cdj670 cdj880 cdj890 cdj1600 hpdj lex2050
> 
> but this doesn't list the 882c.  Anyway, I tried it like this:
> 
> $ gs -sDEVICE=cdj880 /usr/share/ghostscript/5.50/examples/tiger.ps
> GNU Ghostscript 5.50 (2000-2-13)
> Copyright (C) 1998 Aladdin Enterprises, Menlo Park, CA.  All rights
> reserved.
> This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file COPYING for
> details.
> >>showpage, press <return> to continue<<
> 
> and the printer doesn't react at all.  When I run the same command,
> but without specifying the device, it displays the image correctly
> under X windows, so I know that gs itself works.
> 
> This is all under Linux Mandrake 8.0.
> 
> Has anyone gotten an HP DJ882c to work with any version of gs?  This
> would be amazingly cool, but it would also be pretty surprising if it
> actually worked.
> 
> Thanks for any tips
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