I just bought an 800ps that is not yet in service and will be available for me to do some testing that would be ordinarily disruptive to a printer in revenue service (which is what the printer is slated to be - an aged 755cm replacement).
Hopefully I can be of some help, Patrick? ---- _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | | Ryan Novosielski - Jr. UNIX Systems Admin |$&| |__| | | |__/ | \| _| | [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 973/972.0922 (2-0922) \__/ Univ. of Med. and Dent. | IST/ACS - NJMS Medical Science Bldg - C630 On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Patrick Powell wrote: > > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Feb 10 14:09:49 2003 > > Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 15:31:55 -0500 (EST) > > From: Lars Kellogg-Stedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: LPRng: FYI: ifhp.conf entry for HP DesignJet 800ps > > > > This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, > > while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. > > Send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for more info. > > > > ---141788878-1375417706-1044909115=:13262 > > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > > > > Hello all, > > > > Attached is an ifhp.conf entry for an HP DesignJet 800ps -- this is a 42" > > wide large-format inkjet printer. Arrg, somebody write a PPD parser! > > The entry supports almost all the options in the PPD, with the exception > > of the 'PageRegion' options, which appear to be identical to the PageSize > > options of the same name. > > > > And a question: > > > > We've had to turn off 'status' support to make this work. With status on, > > the job is submitted successfully, but IFHP appears to be unable to > > determine the success of the job and promptly resubmits it, leading to a > > neverending series of printouts. > > > > Is anyone else using LPRNG with an 800ps? Have you encountered and/or > > resolved this problem? > > > > Thanks, > > > > -- Lars > > > > -- > > Lars Kellogg-Stedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I have written a PPD parser, and can hook it into the ifhp > system. The problem is the distribution of PPD files. > I think I even distributed it once. > > You can use it to rip out the various definitions from the PPD files > that you want. > > Look carefully at the copyrights on many of them. Apparently you > cannot redistribute them. HP, when informed of this, modified some, > but not all copyrights. As far as I know, the others are still the same. > > In light of the current 'You stole my copyrighted code' fuss with SCO > and IBM, I am VERY VERY glad I did not include the PPD files and the PPD > parser as part of LPRng and IFHP. > > Here is a small sample: > *% Adobe Systems PostScript(R) Printer Description File > *% Copyright 1987-1995 Adobe Systems Incorporated. > *% All Rights Reserved. > *% Permission is granted for redistribution of this file as > *% long as this copyright notice is intact and the contents > *% of the file is not altered in any way from its original form. > *% End of Copyright statement > > Ummm... which means that you cannot even reformat OR (are you ready for this?) > CORRECT AN ERROR. (CGRGGGHHHHH). Or add stuff to it. > > Which means that you have to have some 'meta' PPD file, which will reference > the 'master' ppd file and the 'corrections' and 'extensions' ppd files, > and then have a set of 'definitions' for standard things. > > Oh. You didn't know that each vendor has slightly different names > for things? Oh. And that depending on the DATE the names change? > > This is why the CUPs folks and the Foomatic folks threw in the towel > and propagate the printer setting stuff back to the originator of the > print job. It also means that setting up queues which can handle > different printers is a pain. > > Sigh... > > Patrick Powell > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > YOU MUST BE A LIST MEMBER IN ORDER TO POST TO THE LPRNG MAILING LIST > The address you post from MUST be your subscription address > > If you need help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or lprng-requests > or lprng-digest-requests) with the word 'help' in the body. 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