Re: HP 932 printer and Woody

[Marc Wilson <msw@cox.net>]

On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 11:00:53AM -0400, Cougar wrote:
> Has anyone managed to get the HP 900 series to work with Woody?

Well, my 932C works great with Sid... using hpijs.  Since hpijs is also in
Woody, I don't see any reason why you shouldn't be able to use it.

> I've tried the search engines and the HP Linux driver page to absolutely
> no avail.

<...>

> Any feedback on this would be greatly appreciated!

My /etc/printcap looks like this:

dj2g|deskjet2g|HP Deskjet 932C (greyscale):\
        :force_localhost:\
        :lp=/dev/usb/lp0:\
        :if=/usr/local/bin/deskjetfilter 0:\
        :sd=/var/spool/lpd/dj2g:\
        :mx#0:sh:

dj2n|dj|deskjet2n|HP Deskjet 932C (normal):\
        :force_localhost:\
        :lp=/dev/usb/lp0:\
        :if=/usr/local/bin/deskjetfilter 1:\
        :sd=/var/spool/lpd/dj2n:\
        :mx#0:sh:

dj2p|deskjet2p|HP Deskjet 932C (photo):\
        :force_localhost:\
        :lp=/dev/usb/lp0:\
        :if=/usr/local/bin/deskjetfilter 2:\
        :sd=/var/spool/lpd/dj2p:\
        :mx#0:sh:

Yes, I know, it's not pretty.  I don't claim to write well, it just works.

In /usr/local/bin/deskjetfilter is the following:

#!/bin/bash

# obviously we don't want to dump PS at a non PS device,
# so let's make sure of what this job is BEFORE we
# try to print it, shall we?

# look at the first line to see...
read first_line
first_two_chars=`expr "$first_line" : '\(..\)'`

#
if [ "$first_two_chars" = "%!" ]; then

	# ok, it's PS, use ghostscript to print it
	/usr/bin/gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dSAFER -sBATCH -sDEVICE=DJ9xx \
	-dPrintMode=$1 -sPAPERSISE=letter -sOutputFile=- -
else
	# nope, not PS, so treat as ASCII text
	# (a horrid kludge, but works for the moment)
	echo -e -n $first_line "\r\n" && awk '{printf "%s\r\n",$0}' \
	&& echo -e -n "\f" && exit 0
fi

And ghostscript is smart enough to call for hpijs if it needs it.


-- 
Marc Wilson
mwilson@moonkingdom.net
mwilson@cts.com


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