SUMMARY: HP OfficeJet G85 and Solaris.

Hi group,

No replies...

I guess no one is really using HP PCL printers on Solaris...

Thank's anyway, it's working already, I was hoping for more
flexibility...

Simon.

Simon-Bernard Drolet wrote:
> 
> Hi group,
> 
> I just bought a HP OfficeJet G85 (all-in-one: scanner, fax, colour
> printer and photocopier) and I've set it up with HP software on my
> Winbloze system.
> 
> My winbloze is dual boot with Solaris 8 and this is mostly what I'm
> running.
> 
> My question is this: Did any of you where able to print to an OfficeJet
> G55, G85 or G95... ? Did you setup specific interfaces scripts ? Right
> now, every ghostscript option is hard-coded in the fd and interfaces
> file. Is there a way to pass add options to the filter applied ?
> 
> THank's.
> 
> Here is what I've done:
> 
> I've downloaded ghostscript-7.00, libpng, jpegsrc  and pcl3-3.3. I've
> compiled in gs the pcl3 driver and I've follow directions
> on www.stokely.com on how to print from Solaris to this pcl printer.
> 
> So now, I've got two printer queue, one black/white (ojbw), one colour
> (ojc).
> 
> Here is my config files
> 
> root@sxi-i48# cat /etc/lp/printers/ojc/configuration
> Banner: optional
> Content types: postscript
> Device: /dev/null
> Interface: /usr/lib/lp/model/standard
> Printer type: PS
> Modules:
> Options:
> root@sxi-i48# cat /etc/lp/printers/ojbw/configuration
> Banner: optional
> Content types: postscript
> Device: /dev/null
> Interface: /usr/lib/lp/model/standard
> Printer type: PS
> Modules:
> Options:
> root@sxi-i48# cat ojc.fd
> Input types: postscript
> Output types: PCL3
> Printer types: any
> Printers: any
> Filter type: fast
> Command: /opt/gs7.00/bin/gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER -r600x600
> -sDEVICE=pcl3 -sSubdevice=unspec -sColourModel=CMY+K -sPrintQuality=0
> -sOutputFile=/dev/lp1 -
> root@sxi-i48# cat ojbw.fd
> Input types: postscript
> Output types: PCL3
> Printer types: any
> Printers: any
> Filter type: fast
> Command: /opt/gs7.00/bin/gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER -r600x600
> -sDEVICE=pcl3 -sSubdevice=unspec -sColourModel=Gray -sPrintQuality=0
> -sOutputFile=/dev/lp1 -
> root@sxi-i48#
> 
> And the interfaces scripts in /etc/lp/interfaces/ojc or ojbw where
> modified to add a FILTER line.
> 
> At line 858, in /etc/lp/interfaces/ojc, I've got:
> 
> FILTER='/opt/gs7.00/bin/gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER -r600x600
> -sDEVICE=pcl3
> -sSubdevice=unspec -sColourModel=CMY+K -sPrintQuality=0
> -sOutputFile=/dev/lp1 -'
> 
> At line 858, in /etc/lp/interfaces/ojbw, I've got
> 
> FILTER='/opt/gs7.00/bin/gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER -r600x600
> -sDEVICE=pcl3
> -sSubdevice=unspec -sColourModel=Gray -sPrintQuality=0
> -sOutputFile=/dev/lp1 -'
> 
> --
> Simon-Bernard Drolet, Specialiste X inc., 514-247-6741.
> TMI - Learnix, mailto:Simon@Learnix.com, mailto:SXi@Sympatico.ca
> Certified Sun Technical Instructor (SA-118,SA-238,SA-288,SA-389,SA-400)
> Sun Certified System and Network Administrator for Solaris 8
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Simon-Bernard Drolet, Specialiste X inc., 514-247-6741.
TMI - Learnix, mailto:Simon@Learnix.com, mailto:SXi@Sympatico.ca
Certified Sun Technical Instructor (SA-118,SA-238,SA-288,SA-389,SA-400)
Sun Certified System and Network Administrator for Solaris 8