On 03-Sep-97 Civ Kevin F. Havener wrote: >I'm contemplating buying one of the two subject printers. Has anyone out >there used either of these two printers under Linux? > > Easy to use under Linux is the key criteria. > Color printing is "nice to have" but most of my important printing > needs are black and white. > Will use ghostscript. > Epson has optional postscript. Anyone know what this is? > Appears to be software (like ghostscript) that emulates > postscript. Is it OS dependent as I suspect (resides > on my computer) or is it actually installed into the printer? > >Any clues you can give me are appreciated. >
I've used an HP DeskJet 870Cxi, and HP LaserJet 5L at Work with Debian. The way I did it, was to create a small wrapper script around 'lpr', and then use ghostscript to interpret postscript for the printer. Apart from the fact that it required quite a large disk space for printing (about 100Mbyte for large files), it worked quite well. Netscape printout came in glorius colors :-) and I printed manuals up to 700 pages on the LaserJet. ...just me. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
