Re: Cups, or magicfilter . HP Deskjet 540
DvB <dvanbalen@jam.rr.com> writes:
> Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> > Joel Mayes wrote:
> > However, the cupsomatic-ppd package _does_ have a bunch of ppd
> > files (913 in the version on woody), but it is distributed by
> > www.linuxprinting.org and not by www.cups.org.
> > --
> > Now, with projects such as CUPS and
> > http://lpr.sourceforge.net/ (GNUlpr)
> > http://sourceforge.net/foundry/printing
> > http://hp.sourceforge.net/
> > http://hp.sourceforge.net/uhowto/eps-uhowto.php (Enhanced Printing System)
> > I'm left wondering how all the pieces fit together. It's all
> > very confusing to me.
> > Peter
> >
>
>
> HP's sourceforge page says something about recompiling ghostscript
> with the hpdj driver included, which sounds like a real hassle to
> me. Mandrake (and other distros), however, already includes HP's
> driver with their distribution and I had no problems getting my HP
> DeskJet 932C working with LM8.0 and CUPS... It's all a matter of the
> driver getting bundled with Debian's cups/gs/whatever package. Are
> there any plans for doing this?
>
Actually, I've had no problems building gs and hpijs. Of course hpijs
isn't debianized, and goes into /usr/local, but that's no problem.
Got my DeskJet 957c working almost perfectly. (No duplexer..) I'm
using lprng though, not CUPS.
I have a HOWTO written up if anyone's interested.
Marshal
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