Re: economy mode printing?
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> On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote:
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> > Hi all,
> >
> > Are there any economy mode print filters available for use with gs
> > in debian?
>
> As root, hpset econo should do the trick....
It will, for certain HP printers. Very probably not for the HP 710C
that I have, which actually is a windows printer (but has been
supported by some enthousiastic protocol hacker). It probably doesn't
even have a hardware economode. Hpset probably won't work for Epson or
Canon printers either. I started writing a filter that can convert a
postscript file to a bitmap that leaves out half the pixels (or more,
or less), and turn that into a postscript file that can be printed
again. I was wondering if such a beast existed already. It shouldn't
be to hard to insert this as a feature into gs I suppose, since it
produces a bitmap that is converted to something a printer
understands. Would people be interested in a utility that converts
postscript into `eco-postscript' bitmaps for this purpose?
Eric Meijer
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