Re: Printing from linux

["Zachary Florian" <icthusianz@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

yeah, it should look horrid with the 550c/560c/6xx filter cause it's a
different printer set... just cause i can this is what i know about HP
printers: the filter set you are printing with is expecting the printer to
print using 'photoREt' technology where as your printer (the 832c) is
expecting picture information in a 'photoREt 2' format so it will create
problems for you


>
> 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.
>

actually i wouldn't be surprised if the 832c and 895Cse would operate with
the same generic setup as they are in the same "family" of printers, the
832c just supposedly designed to not handle the workload as the 895 nor
yielding the same speed (possibly and likely just an engineering precaution
to make the 895 more attractive, but maybe the 895 does have a faster little
motor) anyhow if all else fails (cause the 832's still a little new,
discontinued, but not too old) try to see if following the steps for an 895
work

then again i'm not a linux genius, nor even all that good at using it...
just what i know about printers :)



> > 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
>

i have a 720 myself... i knew it was a WinPrinter going into it... i don't
use it in Linux, and i plan on passing it on to my sister eventually when i
can get one of the new 'photoREt3' 9xx printers :) 4mbs ram, yeah baby
yeah...

> 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.
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