Yes, this text printing trouble (not only with HPs) is really intriguing: This HP 940C here (as GS or photo printer quite well working) just doesn't want to do simple text printing from Linux - but does it very well from DOS.
(At first I thought the printer hadn't any own charset any more in its own ROM, like some other makes - there's not the lest hint to that in the firms "documentation". But visibly it has, as the DOS print-out shows straight away.) Searching at the HP site turned up a "hpijs" printer driver recommended as the right thing - and searching on the Linux box showed it was installed there anyway (both in recent Debian and Mandrake installs). Hmm. Still doesn't print trivial text. However, as the consumables of that beast are way too expensive for banal text printing anyway, I have an old robust HP 510 b/w for that purpose sitting under it, connected as 2nd printer; which works. (These rectangular bricks are on the second hand marked for the equiv. of 35 to 40 USD here, and there's a rich choice of no-brand consumables; by now I swear on them, after having trashed two dried-up Epson inkjets in raving anger.) // Heimo Claasen // <hammer at revobild dot net> // Brussels 2003-02-06 The WebPlace of ReRead - and much to read ==> http://www.revobild.net To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
