Re: Printers in Linux
On 2000-03-02 16:37:03, S.P. van Noort wrote:
> I've looked around, among others at
> www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/printer_list.cgi, but as far as I can see the
> only printer that is sold in The Netherlands which works perfectly is the
> HP 610C . But for 30 US$ more, I have a HP 710 C which should print two
> times faster. But according to the webpage you need a special program
> pbm2ppa and you can't print plain text. This problem is with almost all
> the printers. What does this mean, that everything in ASCII you want to
> print is automaticaly converted to DVI/PS and you won't notice the
> difference, except that cat file > /dev/lp1 maybe doesn't work?
>
> The printers I've seen here in Holland are, a.o.
> HP 610, 710, 720, 815, 840, 880
> Epson 460, 660, 760
> Canon 2000, 3000, 6100
> I can't find any of the printers in magicfilter and apsfilter.
I have a HP DeskJet 890c which has worked well for me. Believe the
they just brought out a new model in that seria - 895. Be careful with
the HP printers as some are so called "windows printers" which are
parcially supported up from not supported (hope that's a fair
statement).
The important thing is what ghostscript supports (`gs --help`). I
found the driver `hpdj' to work well (and it covers most if not all
non-windows HP DeskJets). It trivial to modify a magicfiler to call
the right driver.
> Then another question, someone will come here with a laptop and want to
> take files from my Linux-box to his windows98-laptop. Does someone know a
> good webpage/HOWTO how to do that, according to what I've seen it's
> done with a null-modem. I don't have time to Trial & Error
> with the laptop, so a specific HOWTO would be appreciated. As far as I
> found out it should be something with pppd with the option local.
If that someone with a laptop has a network card, it might be worth
for you to get a nic yourself (and a cross-over cable). They can be
found fairly inexpensive and it migth save you some time.
/Allan
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