On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 11:43:41AM +0100, Andrea Vettorello wrote: > > I've a stylus color 880 (mmh, i guess is not a similar model, this model is a > 4 colors printer, the photo should be 6 colors), and have played with > pdq/xpdq and the linuxprinting stp driver (your printer is listed in the > supported printer of the stp driver). well i need to use lprng since i need other networked machines to access it as well. pdq as i understand it is a daemonless localhost only thing. > The binary debian gs package don't have the stp driver compiled by default, > but is present in the sources. I've found some trouble compiling myself the > package (needs small changes in the sources) but the printer is now working. i noticed, gs is simply broken, when run by lprng (or by anyone for that matter, it only works in X) all it does is spit out `svgalib: Cannot get I/O permissions.' regardless of driver or anything i do this is all it does. i have tried compiling it without svga support but that just makes it crash. > Anyway, the pdq driver created (a couple of weeks ago) with the linuxprinting > foomatic for the 880 is, at a first glance, incomplete: the only parameter > passed to gs is the printer model (correct me if i'm wrong), so the printer > is working only in 360 dpi. Passing manually the parameters to gs i was able > to print in higer resolution (1420x720), so it's only a matter to enhance the > pdq driver. all these drivers use gs, which is broken and unusable. > I'm not so skilled in bash scripting, but i've started to modify the pdq > driver myself... > > Hope this could help. unfortunatly not, nobody has been able to tell me why gs does not function. i think i may just return this thing and get a used Apple laserwriter off ebay, these are true postscript printers and won't need this filter crap. thanks anyway. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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