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From: "Brian K. White" <brian@aljex.com>
References: <3C8E5895.6020509@sc.rr.com> 
Subject: Re: Visionfs Prining to USB HP1000 attached & shared on Win98
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 08:11:02 GMT


"Chip Webster" <cwcomputer@sc.rr.com> wrote in message
news:3C8E5895.6020509@sc.rr.com...
> Anyone been able to use hp1000 USB printer with Visionfs? After creating
>   I get no errors, but job fails to print. Changed spool settings to
> RAW, but no help. Know sharing works as a canon parallel share works
> fine on same machine. Even tried generic windows driver. NO LUCK.....

did you ever try reading the printers manual?
did you ever try looking up the model number on the hp web site?


From what I can tell by looking at:
http://www.hp.com/cposupport/printers/support_doc/bpl10969.html#P11_950
that printer does not have the necessary brains to print text on it's own,
it can only print raster data fed to it via the windows driver.

so unless ghostscript has a driver for it, you aint ptinting from unix to
this printer, unless you install printwizard from www.anzio.com and print
through a windows box. (or some other high level printer driver, but I
don't know of any besides printwizard)

I think this is a very back asswards way to print from unix though.
you take all the solidity of unix, and make it rely on a windows box to
get it's job done. And you saved maybe 90 bux buying a bottom-scraper
printer, and all you have to do is buy printwizard (wups now you din't
save any money anymore) and now you get to have slow, unreliable,
high-maintenance printing for the same price as tossing a $200-$300 hp or
brother laser that had basic pcl built in right on the server or on a
print-server or even on a pc is ok since the pc wouldn't have to do as
much work to print in that case.

This is not a slam against printwizard btw, it does do tons of other stuff
that makes it simply necessary in a lot of cases. Actual valuable
features. But you are only talking about simply being able to print text,
which should not require special programs to render 4k of text into 4megs
of graphics and then send that to the windwos driver and hope it
eventually comes out on a peice of paper looking like 4k of text.

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