On 2000-03-02 16:37:03, S.P. van Noort wrote: > I've looked around, among others at > www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/printer_list.cgi, but as far as I can see the > only printer that is sold in The Netherlands which works perfectly is the > HP 610C . But for 30 US$ more, I have a HP 710 C which should print two > times faster. But according to the webpage you need a special program > pbm2ppa and you can't print plain text. This problem is with almost all > the printers. What does this mean, that everything in ASCII you want to > print is automaticaly converted to DVI/PS and you won't notice the > difference, except that cat file > /dev/lp1 maybe doesn't work? > > The printers I've seen here in Holland are, a.o. > HP 610, 710, 720, 815, 840, 880 > Epson 460, 660, 760 > Canon 2000, 3000, 6100 > I can't find any of the printers in magicfilter and apsfilter.
I have a HP DeskJet 890c which has worked well for me. Believe the they just brought out a new model in that seria - 895. Be careful with the HP printers as some are so called "windows printers" which are parcially supported up from not supported (hope that's a fair statement). The important thing is what ghostscript supports (`gs --help`). I found the driver `hpdj' to work well (and it covers most if not all non-windows HP DeskJets). It trivial to modify a magicfiler to call the right driver. > Then another question, someone will come here with a laptop and want to > take files from my Linux-box to his windows98-laptop. Does someone know a > good webpage/HOWTO how to do that, according to what I've seen it's > done with a null-modem. I don't have time to Trial & Error > with the laptop, so a specific HOWTO would be appreciated. As far as I > found out it should be something with pppd with the option local. If that someone with a laptop has a network card, it might be worth for you to get a nic yourself (and a cross-over cable). They can be found fairly inexpensive and it migth save you some time. /Allan -- Allan M. Wind Finger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (GPG/PGP) P.O. Box 2022 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Woburn, MA 01888-0022 ICQ: 44214251 USA Phone: 781.279.4513
