RE: [Hpoj-devel] Test report

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

Hi, Ranier.  Thanks for the feedback.

>         insmod ieee12844
>         insmod ieee12844pp
> 
> ### It should read insmod ieee12884.o ###
I will correct this in the documentation.

> 2) apsfilter
> 
> I am running apsfilter 5.1.4/Debian 2.2 and the installation was
> different than described in PRINT-HOWTO:
So far I haven't focused much on printing, but I'm aware it needs some work.
Part of the problem is that each distribution is a little different about
printing.  At the very least I will include the information you provided
about Debian in the documentation.

> 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 next version (0.6) will have a "make install" feature that installs
everything under /usr/local, which can be overridden by passing
"--prefix=DIR" to the configure script.  You will still have to make sure
/usr/local/lib is specified in ld.so.conf and re-run ldconfig, or add the
directory to LD_LIBRARY_PATH.  Will this installation method be acceptable?

> 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).
I have heard (but not yet verified) that ghostscript has problems with color
printing on the 500/600/700 series OfficeJets.

> 5) Scanning
> 
> No success either:
Last night I finally finished my SANE changes to support scanning on the
flatbed OfficeJets, and I submitted them to one of the official SANE
developers for review and checkin to their codebase.  Once that's done
(hopefully this weekend) I'll put out hpoj-0.6 to enable it.

Scanning support for the scrollfed OfficeJets (such as the 635) will not be
included in this release, but it's next on my to-do list.  Hang in there.
:-)

> # /opt/hpoj-0.5/ptal/ptal-connect mlc:mlcpp0 -scan
> ptalMlcChannelOpen(chan=0x0804A668): error connecting socket!
> ptalChannelOpen(chan=0x0804A668): provider failed open!
"ptal-connect -scan" doesn't actually initiate a scan.  It just connects to
the scan data channel on the peripheral.  However, some OfficeJet models
don't allow you to do this unless you've already issued the right PML
commands to initiate the scan, so that's probably why you got this error
message.

> 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?
Not that I know of.

Since you mentioned you were looking for good Linux support for copying,
could you clarify what exactly you're looking for here?  The 500/600/700
series OfficeJets sometimes need help from the PC to copy a page
(particularly when copying in color), in which case "copy" really means
"scan and then print".  The more recent models have pretty good standalone
copy capabilities.

David