[Hpoj-devel] Test report

[Rainer D. <rd...@we...>]

Hello,

thanks for providing the office jet drivers. They privide the printing
features I needed most urgently. They work great. The minimum thing I
can do is to give some feedback and point out a few things which
basically concern documentation:

I installed your drivers on an hp office jet 635.

graven:/home/rd/hpoj-0.5/apps/cmdline# ./hpo devid 
MFG:Hewlett-Packard;MDL:OfficeJet Series 600;CMD:MLC,PCL,PML;CLASS:PRINTER;REV:4.05

Printing works great both with ptal-connect and ieee12844.

But I found a few minor (primarily documenation) issues:

1) INSTALL file

Step 2: IEEE1284.4 link provider and socket layer
-------------------------------------------------

Change to the directory containing the IEEE1284.4 drivers
(cd ieee12844) and type 

        insmod ieee12844
        insmod ieee12844pp


### It should read insmod ieee12884.o ###

2) apsfilter

I am running apsfilter 5.1.4/Debian 2.2 and the installation was
different than described in PRINT-HOWTO:

I inserted three lines in /usr/share/apsfilter/bin/apsfilter

if [ "$PRINT_TO_FILE" = "True" ]; then
	PRINT_PS="(cat 1> $TMP_PRINTOUT)"
fi

if [ "$REMOTE_PRINTER" = "True" ]; then		# Line inserted
	PRINT_PS="$PRINT_PS | lpr -Premote"	# Line inserted
fi						#Line inserted

if [ "$HPOJ" = "True" ]; then
	PRINT_PS="$PRINT_PS | $HPOJ_PRINT"
fi

################################################################################
#####
##### S h e l l  -  F u n c t i o n s
#####
################################################################################

and created a file /etc/apsfilterrc.deskjet

HPOJ=True
#HPOJ_PRINT=/opt/hpoj-0.5/apps/print/ieee12844_print
HPOJ_PRINT=/opt/hpoj-0.5/ptal/ptal-print

Both HPOJ_PRINT settings work (see next section for ptal-print)

3) Dynamic library issue: 

Since ptal-connect is linked against a non-system library I created a
wrapper script ptal-print (this is not necessary any more as soon
as hpoj is converted into a standard Debian/RedHat or whatever
package or the dynamic library is install in /usr/lib.

The wrapper script /opt/hpoj-0.5/ptal/ptal-print

#!/bin/bash

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/opt/hpoj-0.5/ptal
/opt/hpoj-0.5/ptal/ptal-connect mlc:mlcpp0 -print

4) Color printing

So far color printing was not successful. But I have to check first if
this is a printer hardware problem (ink empty...). But anyways, if
somebody has an already written description how to do this, it would
be welcome (basically I expect that I have to specify another
OutputDevice in gs).

5) Scanning

No success either:

# /opt/hpoj-0.5/ptal/ptal-connect mlc:mlcpp0 -scan
ptalMlcChannelOpen(chan=0x0804A668): error connecting socket!
ptalChannelOpen(chan=0x0804A668): provider failed open!

But I did not yet do any deep research, because the feature is not so
important.


6) Other vendors

I want to purchase a all-in-one-device. The only real requirement is cost less than 500 Euro and good linux support (print, scan, copy). Does anybody know, if other vendors provide better linux support than HP does?

Thanks.

Rainer.


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