Ethan Benson wrote: > On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 11:43:41AM +0100, Andrea Vettorello wrote: > > > > I've a stylus color 880 (mmh, i guess is not a similar model, this model is > > a > > 4 colors printer, the photo should be 6 colors), and have played with > > pdq/xpdq and the linuxprinting stp driver (your printer is listed in the > > supported printer of the stp driver). > > well i need to use lprng since i need other networked machines to > access it as well. pdq as i understand it is a daemonless localhost > only thing.
You can use pdq/xpdq anyway as a front-end to the lprng printer spooling. > > The binary debian gs package don't have the stp driver compiled by default, > > but is present in the sources. I've found some trouble compiling myself the > > package (needs small changes in the sources) but the printer is now working. > > i noticed, gs is simply broken, when run by lprng (or by anyone for > that matter, it only works in X) all it does is spit out `svgalib: > Cannot get I/O permissions.' regardless of driver or anything i do > this is all it does. i have tried compiling it without svga support > but that just makes it crash. I should have mentioned that the version of gs i was referring is the 5.10-11 (the gs present in sid). > > Anyway, the pdq driver created (a couple of weeks ago) with the > > linuxprinting > > foomatic for the 880 is, at a first glance, incomplete: the only parameter > > passed to gs is the printer model (correct me if i'm wrong), so the printer > > is working only in 360 dpi. Passing manually the parameters to gs i was able > > to print in higer resolution (1420x720), so it's only a matter to enhance > > the > > pdq driver. > > all these drivers use gs, which is broken and unusable. You could make a try to compile the sid version... > > I'm not so skilled in bash scripting, but i've started to modify the pdq > > driver myself... > > > > Hope this could help. > > unfortunatly not, nobody has been able to tell me why gs does not > function. i think i may just return this thing and get a used Apple > laserwriter off ebay, these are true postscript printers and won't > need this filter crap. > > thanks anyway. > The color option is nice, but i think a laser ps printer should be a better choice for me too... Andrea
