[hpoj-announce] hpinkjet-0.96 print driver update

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Hi,

HP has released version 0.96 of the hpinkjet drivers, which are compatible
with most OfficeJet models.  This update fixes a problem with using the
DeskJet 600-series drivers (DJ6xx or DJ6xxP) on the OfficeJet 500, 600, 700,
and PSC 300 series.  Previously, I had made a patch to fix this available at
http://hpoj.sourceforge.net/todo.shtml.

The announcement from
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-23-004-20-NW-HW-SV
is included below.

David

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From: "DESKJET,LINUX (HP-Vancouver,exgen1)" <lin...@am...>
Subject: Release 0.96 Linux Deskjet Drivers
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 20:06:02 -0400

Release 0.96 of the HPIJS (HP Ink Jet Server) for HP Inkjets is now
available.

This release can be downloaded at
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=16846

The following release notes describe the release:

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HP Linux Inkjet Driver 0.96 Release 
Updated the hpijs driver to APDK 2.4 which adds support for the following
printers. 

DeskJet980 
DeskJet960 
DeskJet350 
Photosmart 1000/1100 
Photosmart 1215/1218 

Thanks to David Paschal's input, we made a change to the PCL header
(header.cpp). Which will allow the hpijs driver to work with the OfficeJet
500, 600, 700 and PSC 300 series printers. This was only a problem when
running in MLC mode using the ptal-printd demon. 

Made a small change to the top and right margins in gdevhpij.c. This
corrects a problem where both ghostscript and hpijs were trying to set the
margins. 

Added some query commands to the gs/hpijs communication interface. These
commands can be used to return current printer parameters. 

This release is backward compatible with HPIJS 0.95. 
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Thanks,

The Linux Deskjet Team
http://hpinkjet.sourceforge.net