Hello, I have an HP722C and am able to print (mono only). The writer of the pbm2ppa driver says he is working on color. This printer keeps its 'brain' in the Windows drivers. This was quite a struggle but was doable. To get started checkout /usr/doc/packages/ppa >From the CALIBRATION file in that directory I used the command bing$ pbmtpg | pbm2ppa > /dev/lp0 ( or lp1 depending) JOY! this was the first thing after many hours of trying that got anything to happen with my 722C! Read the README.apsfilter file and follow those instructions. Next I created the below shell script from the INSTALL file in the same directory above to print ps (postscript) files. It requiers the ghostscript (gs) and the pbm2ppa packages be installed. #!/bin/sh # file= /usr/local/bin/printps cat $1 | gs -sDEVICE=pbm -q -dNOPAUSE -r600 -sOutputFile=- - | \ pbm2ppa - - | lpr Then I could do: 'printps file.ps' and all is well! ASCII files were another battle. I ended up with another shell script called /usr/local/bin/print that is shown below. This uses the ascii to postscript filter a2ps. The output of this is piped to ghostscript which then is piped to the pbm2ppa filter. See man a2ps for all those options. #!/bin/sh # file= /usr/local/bin/print a2ps -nP -p -l60 -d -ns -F12.0 -1 $1 | gs -sDEVICE=pbm \ -q -dNOPAUSE -r600 -sOutputFile=- - | pbm2ppa - - | lpr Then I could do: 'print textfile' and again all was well. Also in StarOffice I specified the above printps file in the ps printer setup and that worked too! I hope this helps. Email me if you have questions. Jerry Bingen [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, Ewan Dunbar wrote: > > On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Dan Olszewski wrote: > > > > > The reason I jumped on this is I though the email was directed at me since I > > was the only one listed on the To: line. No offence taken. Just frustrated > > that I can't get my hardware to run under Linux. Although it's not Linux's > > fault, it my modem and printer manufacturers faults. > > Hmm. An HP 722C. I don't think there is any such thing as a Winprinter -- > but I'd have to check into it. When you `cat > /dev/lp0` or lp1, depending > on your hardware setup and your kernel, do you get any output? > -- To get out of this list, please send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/ and the archive at http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html
