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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.map.com!usenet From: jay@map.com Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: HP Deskjet printers Date: 5 Dec 1995 22:19:52 GMT Organization: Dr. Fish's Answering Machine Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4a2gi8$707@news.map.com> References: <49vcec$htv@swlpak.msd.ray.com> <4a21mq$1qd@rztsun.tu-harburg.de> Reply-To: jay@map.com NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp63.map.com X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.2.5 In <4a21mq$1qd@rztsun.tu-harburg.de>, fm@.aut.tu-harburg.de (Frank Meissner) writes: >The fist thing to get you HP540 working is to set it to polled mode >by "lptcontrol -p" command. The printer is too fast in some way >with its control lines, so that the impulses get lost and the printer >prints *very* slow. Second there is a filter which is called "apsfilter", Ah! While this wasn't a reply to my question posted yesterday (why my DJ540 was printing so slowly), Thanks for the answer! (I've got the feeling it's more to do with how the dratted daemon handles the printer's responses than the speed of the printer, since it worked fine under Linux (though it just may have been in polled mode... hmm.). In any case, I'm going to recommend another print filter, MagicFilter, which I used under Linux. It works very well, though it does require Ghostscript to do alot of it's magic with respect to printing for anything but plain text. It does happen to compile right out of the box (as it were) under FreeBSD - the GNU configure script worked its magic. // Roland Jay Roberts - Team OS/2 - // Internet: jay@map.com // FidoNet: Roland Roberts @ 1:321/305.5