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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.kei.com!nntp.coast.net!trellis.wwnet.com!stevelim From: stevelim@bambino.com (Steve Limkemann) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: HP deskjet 660C and ghostscript anyone ? Date: 21 Mar 1996 05:06:51 GMT Organization: WWNET Lines: 43 Message-ID: <slrn4l20nh.99.stevelim@bambino.com> References: <4ijut8$d95@ici-paris.ensta.fr> <4ip3oj$14h@gate.ohs.ie> Reply-To: stevelim@wwnet.com NNTP-Posting-Host: livas144.wwnet.com X-Newsreader: slrn (0.8.6) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.setup:46467 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:15769 On 20 Mar 1996 14:12:35 GMT, Steve O'Hara-Smith <steveo@iol.ie> wrote: >In article <4ijut8$d95@ici-paris.ensta.fr>, > bouyer@mallorne.polytechnique.fr (Manuel Bouyer) writes: >>Does anyone got ghostscript working for a HP deskjet 660C ? >>I've tried a setup which works with a 560C, but the 660C seems to have >>a different language. The printing is really slow (more than a hour >>for a single text page), and comes with random lines or exotic characters. > > Not a 660C but I have ghostscript working fine on a 1200C which is >a PCL5 printer (I think the 660C is too). The driver that worked is the >pjxl300 driver for the Paintjet (also a PCL5) printer. My HP 660C is working well with ghostscript 2.6.1, magicfilter 1.1b and the dj550c filter. There are some minor differences between the 560C and 660C printer languages. The major difference is that certain commands must be issued in a strict order for the 660C while the 560C doesn't care about the sequence of those commands. A driver that I had written for the 560C would not print in color with a 660C until I reordered the commands to setup the print job. As far as random lines and exotic characters is concerned, I have found that this may be due to a printer cable that is too long or of poor quality. Try a 2.0 m cable to see if the problem goes away. Ghostscript does hog a lot of CPU time on my 486DX 33 computer. If you don't have a math coprocessor, and/or are using a slow 386, that might account for some of the slowness. It seems that my printer is able to print a bit faster than ghostscript can format a page. I haven't timed it, but it seems to print somewhere between 2 and 4 pages per minute in black and a bit over a minute per page in color. -- ______________________ _____________________________________ / Steve Limkemann \/ A microsecond here and a microsecond \ | Westland, Michigan || there, and before you know it, | | USA, North America || you're talking real-time. | | Earth, Solar System || | | Milky Way || Banned from Oeonline.com for insist- | | MGX467 271 48185 || ing that problems should be fixed. | \______________________/\______________________________________/