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From: stevelim@bambino.com (Steve Limkemann)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: HP deskjet 660C and ghostscript anyone ?
Date: 21 Mar 1996 05:06:51 GMT
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On 20 Mar 1996 14:12:35 GMT, Steve O'Hara-Smith <steveo@iol.ie> wrote:
>In article <4ijut8$d95@ici-paris.ensta.fr>,
>	bouyer@mallorne.polytechnique.fr (Manuel Bouyer) writes:
>>Does anyone got ghostscript working for a HP deskjet 660C ?
>>I've tried a setup which works with a 560C, but the 660C seems to have
>>a different language. The printing is really slow (more than a hour
>>for a single text page), and comes with random lines or exotic characters.
>
>	Not a 660C but I have ghostscript working fine on a 1200C which is
>a PCL5 printer (I think the 660C is too). The driver that worked is the
>pjxl300 driver for the Paintjet (also a PCL5) printer.

My HP 660C is working well with ghostscript 2.6.1, magicfilter 1.1b and
the dj550c filter.  There are some minor differences between the 560C and 
660C printer languages.  The major difference is that certain commands
must be issued in a strict order for the 660C while the 560C doesn't 
care about the sequence of those commands.  A driver that I had written
for the 560C would not print in color with a 660C until I reordered the 
commands to setup the print job.

  As far as random lines and exotic characters is concerned, I have 
found that this may be due to a printer cable that is too long or
of poor quality.  Try a 2.0 m cable to see if the problem goes away.

  Ghostscript does hog a lot of CPU time on my 486DX 33 computer.  If you
don't have a math coprocessor, and/or are using a slow 386, that might 
account for some of the slowness.  It seems that my printer is able to
print a bit faster than ghostscript can format a page.  I haven't timed
it, but it seems to print somewhere between 2 and 4 pages per minute 
in black and a bit over a minute per page in color.

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