IJS is probably it; that's the PCL driver for the home-office class printers.
Akshat: PCL is proprietary but not closed; you can find references to it online. I would highly recommend never looking at PCL since it will make your eyes bleed. Hopefully the Ghostscript drivers will work for you. On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Russ Cox<r...@swtch.com> wrote: > If there is a Ghostscript output device for a printer, > then you just need to edit /sys/lib/lp/devices to add > an appropriate line giving the output device name and > the file where the output goes. > > ; grep 'gs!' devices > hpdeskjet - - /dev/lpt1data - gs!cdj670+nohead generic nospool - - - - > canonbjc240l - - /dev/lpt1data - gs!bjc600+nohead generic nospool - - - - > ; > > Those two are writing to /dev/lpt1data using the cdj670 > and bjc600 drivers. However, I think you need the ijs > driver, which is not built by default (it probably should be). > To enable it, edit /sys/src/cmd/gs/mkfile to add ijs to the > device list and then rebuild using the instructions in the > mkfile. > > Then you'll have to compile hpijs and add a line to your > /sys/lib/lp/devices that says gsijs!model+number instead > of gs!dev. See /sys/lib/lp/process/gspipeijs for the > exact syntax and how it interacts with the hpijs program. > Also http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/doc/cvs/Devices.htm#IJS > > I don't know how/where you get the hpijs program. > Perhaps someone else who is using it could speak up. > It was originally ported in 2004 by Kenji Okamoto but > I expect you'll need a newer one than that. > > Russ > >
