Re: apsfilter vs. magikfilter and hp printer
*- On 14 Nov, Micha Feigin wrote about "apsfilter vs. magikfilter and hp printer"
> Whats the us and downs of these to packages?
> I need to use a hp 810c which I just bought.
> which will be more apropriate?
> Is there any documentation on using hp printers in order to get the
> deferent capabilities from the printer (deferent quallity, resolution,
> papersize, twoside printing etc. ?
I have a Deskjet 660c and have been very happy with magicfilter and
gs-aladdin.(which includes the hpdj patch)(see the man page for gs-hpdj
when you install gs-aladdin.) The hpdj driver doesn't support your
printer specifically but you should be able to get almost all of the
features since the printer uses PCL-3. Don't know about 2-sided printing
though. More info on the hpdj driver can be found at
ftp://ftp.sbs.de/pub/graphics/ghostscript/pcl3/pcl3.html.
Apsfilter seems to be fairly actively maintained in Debian now after a
long time of neglect, it has a new maintainer. Others will probably
provide input on it.
HTH,
Brian Servis
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