ports/56091: hp220 driver for ghostscript does not work on hp 8xx inkjets

[Stephen Corbesero]

>Number:         56091
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       hp220 driver for ghostscript does not work on hp 8xx inkjets
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          maintainer-update
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Aug 28 12:10:27 PDT 2003
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Stephen Corbesero
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE i386
>Organization:
Moravian College, Computer Science Dept.
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD lantern.cs.moravian.edu 4.8-STABLE FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE #0: Wed Jul 23 11:56:29 EDT 2003 flashr at lantern.cs.moravian.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/LANTERN i386



>Description:

The gnu ghostscripts port and probably the afpl port use the "hp2200"
drivers for the many deskjet printers.  I have a deskjet 890c which
worked fine under gs 5.xx, but I recently moved the printer to a
freebsd 4.8-stable machine with the current ghostscript (7.07).  The
raster files produced from this new gs specifying the deskjet cdj890
were not compatible with the printer.  I sent email to the hp2200
author, and he acknowledges that they may not be compatible.

>How-To-Repeat:
cat simple.ps | \
   gs -sDEVICE=cdj890 -sOutputFile=out.890 -dBATCH -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE
cp out.890 /dev/lpt0
the output on the printer will be garbled text

>Fix:

The pcl3 driver does work for the deskjet 890.  One must specify the
subdevice of hpdj890 and the colormodel if you want color output.




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