Re: Printing from linux

[awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

> I am printing from my workstation to an HP832C connetcted to my 
server.  Samba is what I
> am using as the printer server.  When printing from windows, there are 
no problems.  For
> the most part it prints using the windows driver from windows98 just 
as if it were 
> connected to the paralell port of the computer running windows.  The 
difficulties come  
> when I print from linux.
> To me this sounds like a problem stemming from lack of linux support 
for this printer.
> There is no filter option which includes this printer in the 
print-tool.  I am using the
> 550C/560C/6xxc filter in the linux print tool.  I can print from linux 
if it is text I am
> trying to print.  So I can print most of the stuff I want to.  However 
I am trying to set

What version of ghost script do you have?
What "languages" does the 832c support?  PCL?  What level of PCL?  
HP's website  should have it on their somewhere.  It did for my 
HP895Cse (which work's great).  It might even be in the manual.

> up my fathers printers so he can print photo images.(jpg's)  If I open 
Gimp and try to
> print an image, it is awful.  He uses Adobe Photoshop alot and has the 
following
> printers: HP PhotoSmart photoprinter, HP Laserjet 4L and HP Deskjet 
722C.  I'd like to

The 722 is a GDI (WinPrinter) and is not supported.  It might work at 
300dpi using PCL3 (some do) but you'll never get good output from it 
under Linux.  There is a project to create drivers for these printers 
(called PPA specifically) at:

http://www.rpi.edu/~normat/technical/ppa/index.html

but I don't know what the status is.  They had a working B&W driver 
about two years ago,  but I threw my PPA printer in the dumpster out 
back not long after that.

> get him to prefer the gimp over photoshp but without being able to 
print high quality, it
> is difficult.

I can't blame him.

> So what should I be trying?  I've gone to HP's web site but failed to 
find linux printer
> filters. Should I be sending from a linux workstation to linux server 
using nfs instead
> of samba?  Is anyone out there a frequent user of the Gimp who has 
overcome similar
> problems?

HP has no printer support for Linux.