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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!news.seinf.abb.se!nooft.abb.no!Norway.EU.net!EU.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!news.gtn.com!klemm.gtn.com!usenet From: andreas@klemm.gtn.com (Andreas Klemm) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Filter for HPDeskJet500C wanted Date: 12 Jun 1996 22:03:27 GMT Lines: 35 Message-ID: <4pnerf$ec@klemm.gtn.com> References: <9ckBPD1w165w@tusia.kiel.org> <31BD62BC.FF6D5DF@ibama.gov.br> <1996Jun11.222223.1490@zippy.dct.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: klemm.gtn.com X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 In-Reply-To: <1996Jun11.222223.1490@zippy.dct.ac.uk> To: root@hirta.tay.ac.uk (Charlie &) In article <1996Jun11.222223.1490@zippy.dct.ac.uk>, root@hirta.tay.ac.uk (Charlie &) writes: >In article <31BD62BC.FF6D5DF@ibama.gov.br>, > Bernardo Brummer <bbrummer@ibama.gov.br> writes: >>> > >I installed the apsfilter from the ports collection, using cdeskjet for the >output device (from ghostscript) during the installation... Its slow, as it >tries to convert everything to postscript then back to the deskjet, but it >does work. It's the only sane way, to handle many different printers ... And most file formats, that apsfilter supports are definitively graphic file formats ... and graphic printouts are slow, that's normal. > It also sets up a printer lpr -Praw which prints straight to the >printer, Yeah, that was intended ! Some people want fast output ... They wanted it, they got it ;-) > no problems so far on my HPDjet500C, haven't tried anything in colour >yet though :) Runs smart with EPSON Stylus Pro ;-)) I made small modifications, will come out soon (I hope). Andreas /// -- andreas@klemm.gtn.com /\/\___ Wiechers & Partner Datentechnik GmbH Andreas Klemm ___/\/\/ Support Unix -- andreas.klemm@wup.de pgp p-key http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/~bal/pks-toplev.html >>> powered by <<< ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Printing/aps-491.tgz >>> FreeBSD <<<