[hpoj-announce] new HP inkjet print drivers

[PASCHAL,DAVID (HP-Roseville,ex1) <dav...@hp...>]

Hi,

HP today released new ghostscript print drivers for selected DeskJet
printers at http://hpinkjet.sourceforge.net.  The news brief is attached to
the end of this message.

I haven't yet had a chance to test these drivers with the OfficeJets, but I
did update the "supported devices" page
(http://hpoj.sourceforge.net/suplist.shtml) to reflect which drivers I think
should work with which OfficeJets.  In the meantime, the adventurous may
feel free to try it out and report their experiences/problems to the
hpoj-devel mailing list.  :-)  However, general (non-OfficeJet-specific)
questions and problems with these drivers may be better suited for the
help/discussion forums on the hpinkjet project, since I was not involved
with this development effort.

Note that the OfficeJet Pro 1150C/1170C/1175C are not supported by the new
drivers at this time, but from my experience the cdj850 driver seems to give
better print quality than the cdj550 driver on these models.

David

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HP Linux Inkjet Driver 0.93 Initial Release

The HP Linux Inkjet Driver is a add-on to the GNU Ghostscript application.
The source code for this driver is available at
http://hpinkjet.sourceforge.net . This driver is based on the HP Appliance
Printing Development Kit (APDK) at http://hpapdk.com for Deskjet printers. 

HP is enhancing the Linux printing experience by delivering a software
solution that provides very good print quality. The HP driver provides
support for more than 30 Deskjet printer models. The driver supports two
print modes - plain paper normal, and photo paper best.

The HP driver uses GPL Ghostscript to convert PostScript into print rasters
that are passed through shared memory to our driver that executes as a
server. A Ghostscript update kit is included with the HP solution.

For complete information see http://hpinkjet.sourceforge.net .