Re: Printing from linux

[Dirk Bartley <bartleyd2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

awilliam@whitemice.org wrote:
> 
> >> What version of ghost script do you have?
> > rpm -qa | grep gho yields the following output
> > ghostscript-5.10-10
> > ghostscript-fonts-5.10-3
> 
> I use ghostscript 5.50-2, which I compiled myself to contain the
> driver found at the following site:
> 
> http://www.proaxis.com/~mgelhaus/linux/software/hp880c/hp880c.html
> 
> If you want to try it I can either send you my binary or you can build
> it yourself.  Don't be intimidates by compiling ghostscript,  if you
> get the SRC RPM's from the RedHat contrib site the directions are
> clear, step by step, and work exactly.

ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/ghost/gnu/gs550/

Do I need to download all of these.  Maybe I need to research what really
happens when a print happens and how it relates to the printtool and how
it functions.  I failed to find the srpms for ghostscript on a couple of 
redhat mirrors they only had ghostscript-5.10-10.

Maybe I should just get your binary?

> 
> I doubt you'll find anythign on the Gimp sites,  this is really a
> ghostscript issue.
http://www.pandi.hp.com/pandi-db/prod_info.show?model=C3804A&name=Photo

This is the printer I would really like to work.  Do I have a prayer. I
could continue to try to get the 832C working but my system will be
formatted soon.  I'm going to guess it's hopeless because it is somewhat
of an obscure printer which has already been replaced by HP.

Dirk Bartley