Re: Cups, or magicfilter . HP Deskjet 540
On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 02:12:57AM +0900, Marshal Wong wrote: ... Actually, I've had no problems building gs and hpijs. Of course hpijs isn't debianized, and goes into /usr/local, but that's no problem. Got my DeskJet 957c working almost perfectly. (No duplexer..) I'm using lprng though, not CUPS. I have a HOWTO written up if anyone's interested. do you have an URL? -- groetjes, carel
Re: Cups, or magicfilter . HP Deskjet 540
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (W. Paul Mills) writes: Cups, while designed to be quite flexible seems to not at present have support for much anything unless you want to buy it's creators products. Or write your own filters. I'm not sure thats true, if you install cupsys-driver-gimpprint and cupsomatic-ppd you get support for over 1000 different printers Cheers Joel
Re: Cups, or magicfilter . HP Deskjet 540
Guess I might have known if I was tracking unstable or testing ;-) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joel Mayes) writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (W. Paul Mills) writes: Cups, while designed to be quite flexible seems to not at present have support for much anything unless you want to buy it's creators products. Or write your own filters. I'm not sure thats true, if you install cupsys-driver-gimpprint and cupsomatic-ppd you get support for over 1000 different printers Cheers Joel -- * For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son, * * that whoever believes in Him should not perish...John 3:16 *
Re: Cups, or magicfilter . HP Deskjet 540
Joel Mayes wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (W. Paul Mills) writes: Cups, while designed to be quite flexible seems to not at present have support for much anything unless you want to buy it's creators products. Or write your own filters. I'm not sure thats true, if you install cupsys-driver-gimpprint and cupsomatic-ppd you get support for over 1000 different printers You may be both right. http://www.cups.org/software.html says: The CUPS distribution only provides sample drivers for HP and EPSON printers. If you need drivers for other printers, or want commercial- quality printer drivers, please visit our ESP Print Pro page for information on our commercial printing solutions. ESP Print Pro supports thousands of printers and includes graphical interfaces to CUPS. And `ESP Print Pro Standalone on CD-ROM' (not a license to server as a print server) sells for US$95. However, the cupsomatic-ppd package _does_ have a bunch of ppd files (913 in the version on woody), but it is distributed by www.linuxprinting.org and not by www.cups.org. -- Now, with projects such as CUPS and http://lpr.sourceforge.net/ (GNUlpr) http://sourceforge.net/foundry/printing http://hp.sourceforge.net/ http://hp.sourceforge.net/uhowto/eps-uhowto.php (Enhanced Printing System) I'm left wondering how all the pieces fit together. It's all very confusing to me. Peter
Re: Cups, or magicfilter . HP Deskjet 540
Paul wrote: I made a new installation from scratch (2.2 rev 3), but I didn't get any printer settings, nor I saw any script for that. I have a HP deskjet 540, does some one know how to configure it? What would be better, cups or magicfilter? I just started looking at CUPS, and have now tried it on two different systems. I was previously using lprng and magicfilter on one of the systems, while the other couldn't print at all (networked printers using HP's JetDirect system - never could get lprng to print to these). I've found CUPS *much* easier to get up and running. Especially when it comes to setting up printing to networked printers - both the JetDirect printers as well as a printer being shared out from a Windows machine were simple to set up. As a side note, with the cupsomatic-ppd package installed there is support for the DJ540. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | He that is slow to believe anything and | everything is of great understanding, '91 GS500E| for belief in one false principle is the Morgantown WV | beginning of all unwisdom. pgph9llDpsWgc.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Cups, or magicfilter . HP Deskjet 540
Peter S Galbraith wrote: Joel Mayes wrote: However, the cupsomatic-ppd package _does_ have a bunch of ppd files (913 in the version on woody), but it is distributed by www.linuxprinting.org and not by www.cups.org. -- Now, with projects such as CUPS and http://lpr.sourceforge.net/ (GNUlpr) http://sourceforge.net/foundry/printing http://hp.sourceforge.net/ http://hp.sourceforge.net/uhowto/eps-uhowto.php (Enhanced Printing System) I'm left wondering how all the pieces fit together. It's all very confusing to me. Peter HP's sourceforge page says something about recompiling ghostscript with the hpdj driver included, which sounds like a real hassle to me. Mandrake (and other distros), however, already includes HP's driver with their distribution and I had no problems getting my HP DeskJet 932C working with LM8.0 and CUPS... It's all a matter of the driver getting bundled with Debian's cups/gs/whatever package. Are there any plans for doing this?
Re: Cups, or magicfilter . HP Deskjet 540
DvB [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Peter S Galbraith wrote: Joel Mayes wrote: However, the cupsomatic-ppd package _does_ have a bunch of ppd files (913 in the version on woody), but it is distributed by www.linuxprinting.org and not by www.cups.org. -- Now, with projects such as CUPS and http://lpr.sourceforge.net/ (GNUlpr) http://sourceforge.net/foundry/printing http://hp.sourceforge.net/ http://hp.sourceforge.net/uhowto/eps-uhowto.php (Enhanced Printing System) I'm left wondering how all the pieces fit together. It's all very confusing to me. Peter HP's sourceforge page says something about recompiling ghostscript with the hpdj driver included, which sounds like a real hassle to me. Mandrake (and other distros), however, already includes HP's driver with their distribution and I had no problems getting my HP DeskJet 932C working with LM8.0 and CUPS... It's all a matter of the driver getting bundled with Debian's cups/gs/whatever package. Are there any plans for doing this? Actually, I've had no problems building gs and hpijs. Of course hpijs isn't debianized, and goes into /usr/local, but that's no problem. Got my DeskJet 957c working almost perfectly. (No duplexer..) I'm using lprng though, not CUPS. I have a HOWTO written up if anyone's interested. Marshal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cups, or magicfilter . HP Deskjet 540
Cc: Bcc: Subject: Re: Cups, or magicfilter . HP Deskjet 540 Reply-To: In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 10:46:38AM -0500, DvB wrote: HP's sourceforge page says something about recompiling ghostscript with the hpdj driver included, which sounds like a real hassle to me. Mandrake (and other distros), however, already includes HP's driver with their distribution and I had no problems getting my HP DeskJet 932C working with LM8.0 and CUPS... It's all a matter of the driver getting bundled with Debian's cups/gs/whatever package. Are there any plans for doing this? The hpdj driver has been in the Debian version of gs-aladdin for some time (I don't know about the GNU-licensed gs package, but since that is a revision or so behind the aladdin version, it could very well be there also). When I had a Deskjet 520, several of the other deskjet drivers worked just as well, however (with lprng/magicfilter, I have never used cups). Bob
Re: Cups, or magicfilter . HP Deskjet 540
Marshal Wong wrote: Actually, I've had no problems building gs and hpijs. Of course hpijs isn't debianized, and goes into /usr/local, but that's no problem. Got my DeskJet 957c working almost perfectly. (No duplexer..) I'm using lprng though, not CUPS. I have a HOWTO written up if anyone's interested. Sure, anything that would help me figure it out faster would be appreciated.
Re: Cups, or magicfilter . HP Deskjet 540
on Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 01:09:09PM -0400, kmself@ix.netcom.com (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: I made a new installation from scratch (2.2 rev 3), but I didn't get any printer settings, nor I saw any script for that. I have a HP deskjet 540, does some one know how to configure it? What would be better, cups or magicfilter? Thanks, Got this set up (some time back). Interesting story. The box is an HP Pavilion, forget what series. The BIOS settings were for OS handling of LPT, which explained why the printer port wasn't being recognized. I ended up changing the appropriate BIOS settings (again, I forget specifics), and could use the printer, including low-level settings. Frankly I can't remember which of the various print systems I installed on the box, but I seem to recall thinking CUPS was possibly overkill for the single box/attached printer setup. Cheers. -- Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.comhttp://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of Gestalt don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org Are these opinions my employer's? Hah! I don't believe them myself! pgpE7tc91qW5l.pgp Description: PGP signature
Cups, or magicfilter . HP Deskjet 540
I made a new installation from scratch (2.2 rev 3), but I didn't get any printer settings, nor I saw any script for that. I have a HP deskjet 540, does some one know how to configure it? What would be better, cups or magicfilter? Thanks, RR
Re: Cups, or magicfilter . HP Deskjet 540
On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 01:09:09PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I made a new installation from scratch (2.2 rev 3), but I didn't get any printer settings, nor I saw any script for that. I have a HP deskjet 540, does some one know how to configure it? What would be better, cups or magicfilter? I haven't tried cups, but have used magicfilter with a dj520, which is similar. It worked fine.
Re: Cups, or magicfilter . HP Deskjet 540
Cups, while designed to be quite flexible seems to not at present have support for much anything unless you want to buy it's creators products. Or write your own filters. @home.com (Raul Rodriguez) writes: I made a new installation from scratch (2.2 rev 3), but I didn't get any printer settings, nor I saw any script for that. I have a HP deskjet 540, does some one know how to configure it? What would be better, cups or magicfilter? Thanks, RR -- * For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son, * * that whoever believes in Him should not perish...John 3:16 *
