From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun May 18 00:40:50 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA16222 for hardware-outgoing; Sun, 18 May 1997 00:40:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kyyppari.hkkk.fi (k20418@kyyppari.hkkk.fi [128.214.33.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA16210; Sun, 18 May 1997 00:40:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from k20418@localhost) by kyyppari.hkkk.fi (8.8.5/8.8.3) id KAA02245; Sun, 18 May 1997 10:35:00 +0300 (EET DST) From: Teemu Kuusijarvi Message-Id: <199705180735.KAA02245@kyyppari.hkkk.fi> Subject: Re: What Printer To Get - Postscript To: sos@sos.freebsd.dk (Søren Schmidt) Date: Sun, 18 May 1997 10:35:00 +0300 (EET DST) Cc: chuckr@mat.net, se@FreeBSD.ORG, dave@persprog.com, jgrosch@sirius.com, randyk@ccsales.com, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199705162101.XAA19676@sos.freebsd.dk> from "Søren Schmidt" at May 16, 97 11:01:47 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24alpha5] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > In reply to Chuck Robey who wrote: > > On Fri, 16 May 1997, Stefan Esser wrote: > > > > > 3) From what I've heard, there is no documentation about high > > > resolution graphics commands available for any HP printer. > > > The printer's manual does not even tell about the graphic > > > compression modes supported (but you can easily find them > > > by trying all of them). This limits printing to 300dpi, while > > > the actual physical resolution (pixel size on paper) appears > > > to be better, even on plain photo-copier paper (I did not yet > > > try printing on special color inkjet paper). > > > > Stefan, I thought all the inkjets used PCL5 as their language. If that's > > true, it's completely documented in stuff available from HP. > > No, the 870 uses PCL3+ whatever superset of PCL3 that might be... > I bought one a month or so ago, and it is endeed a nice printer. > > The only matter I still persue is that it prints much too colored > images, its like the color saturation has been set too high in > ghostscript. However it can probably be corrected by fiddeling > with ghostscript.... You get color output? I have 870Cxi and Aladdin ghostscript here at work and I have managed to get b/w only. Please tell me what driver you use and where to get it. TpK -- ---------------------------------------------- Teemu Kuusijarvi http://www.iki.fi/tpk/ email tpk@iki.fi -------------- FreeBSD 2.2.1 ---------------