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Title: Which DeskJet driver should I use?

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Which DeskJet driver should I use?

Symptom:

Quite difficult in view of the multitude of available ghostscript drivers for the different DeskJet printers ;-).

Solution:

Please take a look in the CDB (Component Database), and see if a special driver is recommended for your model: http://www.suse.de/cdb/english/; If no driver is recommended, then the following instructions should help:

First you should try the hpdj driver which is included in the ghostscript package that comes along with your »SuSE Linux«-Distribution. Configure apsfilter for this driver as usual: Start YaST and select "System Administration", "Integrate hardware into system", "Configure printers" and fill out the screen.

Please take a look at the man page for gs-hpdj and the file /usr/share/ghostscript/<VERSION>/doc/hpdj/gs-hpdj.txt, for a more detailed description of the configuration (where "<VERSION>" should be substituted with the version of Ghostscript, ie "5.10").

Up to date information on this driver may be found under ftp://ftp.pdb.sni.de/pub/utilities/misc/hpdj.html

Example

For the difference between mono and color, the file /etc/apsfilterrc.hpdj should contain the following precaution:

        if [ "$COLOR" = "mono" ]; then
           GS_FEATURES="-sModel=unspec -sColourMode=mono
-sPrintQuality=draft"
        else
           GS_FEATURES="-sModel=unspec -sColourMode=CMYK
-sPrintQuality=normal"
        fi

Make sure to verify (from the Manpage - see the section titled "Colour Modes") that the selected color mode (in this case "CMYK") is correct for your printer!

See also:

Printer : checklist
The printer isn´t supported by Linux
Printing: Unrecoverable error: rangecheck in .putdeviceprops
New Ghostscript version

Keywords: DESKJET, PRINTING, PRINTER, GHOSTSCRIPT, HPDJ

Feedback welcome: Send Mail to ke@suse.de (Please give the following subject: SDB-ke_dj)

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