[techtalk] Newbie: my printer.

[Stephan Zaniolo]

	Hopefully this will help.  I have Red Hat 6.0, GNOME, kernel 2.2.12, HP
DeskJet 895cse connected to the parallel port.  Because I upgraded my
kernel, I had to compile in support for the parallel port.  (Don't know if
the rpm kernel has this built in).  I ran the printtool and selected the
"HP DeskJet 550C/560C/6xxC series" and selected all the options (Fix
stair-stepping/send EOF/etc).  I know this isn't the proper way to do it,
but it does the job for now.  There is a driver for this printer at:

	http://www.proaxis.com/~mgelhaus/linux/software/hp880c/hp880c.html

	However, it's only offered as source code and it requires downloading the
ghostscript source code, copying the driver source files in, and
re-compiling ghostscript.  When I tried this, it didn't compile which is
why I chose the other driver.  Since I'm a college student, I haven't had a
chance to figure out why this won't work, so it'll have to wait until
winter break [18-Dec].  (Unless some very kind soul would be interested in
looking at it and letting me know what's wrong [and maybe even sending an
RPM...ok, I won't push my luck ;^) ].  It seems that the ghostscript I
downloaded didn't have a Makefile [maybe configured for RPM?], but the
driver for the printer did; if this is the problem or helps)

Stephan

At 05:08 PM 10/25/99 +0200, you wrote:
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>I would like to know if my printer is supported bay any Linux kernel
>version.
>It's a HP DeskJet 850 cxi (non Windows95 printer).
>
>Thanx in advance.
>
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>Xavier Gutierrez Muñoz xgm at newton.fis.ucm.es
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