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Re: Printer Drivers for HP 694C



On Tue, Oct 26, 1999, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote about "Re: Printer Drivers for HP 694C":
> Printer Language	Host-based printing with PCL 4 MS-DOS emulation 
>                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> This means that the windows drivers generate a bit map of the page and
> send it to printer. The specs are not public information.

Note that given enough persistance and a taste for reverse engineering,
even that problem can be overcome. For example, I have a HP 720C color
inkjet printer which is supposed to be "windows-only" (the windows driver
generates a bitmap in proprietary format and sends it to the printer).
but thanks Tim Norman's "PPA for the masses" package, at

	 http://www.httptech.com/ppa/

and to ghostscript, I now print on this printer Postscript files transparently
from Linux (currently, only black-and-white (not even grayscale, which the
HP 720C is so good at generating), but it's better than nothing). I don't
know if it works for later printers, but you might want to give it a shot.


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