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Forget the Ghostscript! I fought with it on several HP printers until
I was pulling my hair out.
The real answer?
Install "enscript"
It's cleaner, faster, and does a much more predictable job. And it
works great with the default Deskjet 500 driver!
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From: Lord of the Elves[SMTP:elflord pegasus rutgers edu]
Sent: Friday, October 03, 1997 5:49 AM
To: redhat-install-list redhat com
Subject: Re: HP 500 Deskjet Printer
In message <Pine.LNX.3.95.971002090305.18172A-
100000 bf_jearl baf com>,Jason Ea
rl writes:
>
>
>On Thu, 2 Oct 1997, Lord of the Elves wrote:
>
>> Hello all.
>>
>> I'm running RedHat 4.1.
>> I have received a fairly generous offer of a HP 500 deskjet,
>> almost a give-away, I told my friend I'd take it if it worked on
linux. It
>> should, and the "print text page"
>> (running it from control panel) works, but the postscript prints
at very poo
>r
>> quality (ie it's vaguely legible, but not very good). I've tried
the 500 and
>> 500c drivers. The 500c drivers print nonsense when I run the
postscript
>> test. The driver for HP 500 (I think it's listed as HP Deskjet
plus)
>> gives decipherable but very poor quality output.
>
>Have you tried upgrading ghostscript. The one that RedHat ships
with does
>not do a very good job with the older deskjets (I couldn't read a
thing on
>my deskjet plus). Grab the newest rpm and see if that helps (I bet
it
>will).
>
>> Has anyone out their succesfully configured one of these printers?
It's a
>> fairly "standard" make, but I cant "make" it work.
>
>I ran into the same problem. The printer would even work with
Slackware
>(but who wants to use Slackware).
>
Yes... I have just upgraded ghostscript and also upgraded the print-
tool and
all
of the associated dependents (to the Redhat 4.2 versions) .
The new print tool comes with a specific HP500
Deskjet driver, and this seems to be working just fine.
Many thanks to all respondents --
Donovan
>
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