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Date:      Wed, 14 Nov 2001 17:13:52 +0000 (GMT)
From:      "P. U. (Uli) Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de>
To:        Dave <dloose@wpi.edu>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: HP Deskjet Woes
Message-ID:  <20011114170519.E912-100000@big>
In-Reply-To: <20011114121720.A12653@mimir.res.WPI.NET>

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On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Dave wrote:

>    Ok.  I've lived with this problem for a few months now but it really is
> starting to bother me.  I set up my printer using apsfilter using the
> 'hpdj' driver.  Now, this is a color printer, so I have, at times,
> specified different settings for the color option.  I often leave it set to
> 'default', but I have tried several other options as well (8bpp, 24bpp,
> 32bpp).  None of these seem to enable color printing though.
>    So, what am I doing wrong?  Has anyone else managed to get color
> printing to work on this printer (it's an HP 842C -- I actually got it
> because someone recommended it for FreeBSD).  Am I using the wrong driver?
Indeed there are two different filters for hp's in apsfilter
and they have very similar names: hpdj and some other thing
like this. One of them will print black&white by default,
but also can do colors by some cryptical command. The other
one prints colors by default.
You also can have a look at apsfilter's handbook on
www.apsfilter.org or subscribe to their mailing list. They
are quite nice and helpful to everybody.

Uli.

> The wrong filter?
>
>    As always, your help is invaluable.  I seriously don't know what I'd do
> without this list.  Thank you,
>
> -- Dave
>
> PS: If you could cc my e-mail address (dloose at wpi dot edu) to your
> response, I would appreciate it greatly.
>
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