Re: win-printer??
The ghostscript printer compatibility page
<http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/printer.html> has probably the best
collection of information on printer drivers, but unfortunately doesn't
supply any helpful information for the 722c with Linux.
Bob
On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, Mark Connolly wrote:
> Hello all.
>
> I have just recently successfully installed Debian 2.0 (Hamm) from the
> disks in a book bought at Borders.
>
> I have run into a problem with my HP Deskjet 722c printer, a printer I
> am very happy with on the dos/w95 side of my box.
>
> Apparently it is a win-printer which I did not know existed, i.e. it
> depends on the operating system for some of its functionality. So, no
> printing from Linux.
>
> I had heard once of a reverse engineering attempt to get a driver that
> would work. I'm trying again to find out if such an attempt has been
> made, or maybe is successful.
>
> But, I also am curious about the 'legality' of such a thing. I'm
> guessing it is legal, even if HP doesn't like it, since I'm assuming
> the reverse engineering is being done to determine critical info such
> that a driver can be written non-proprietarily from scratch.
>
> I would be interested in anyone's thoughts on these matters. Thanks.
> msc
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