Re: [hpoj-devel] hpinkjet testing results

[Joe P. <joe...@sn...>]

On Saturday 31 March 2001 07:01 am, David Paschal wrote:

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> Hi,
>
> Today I finished testing the rest of the models that should work with the
> hpinkjet drivers.  The following can be added to the "successful" test list
> above:
> DJ8xx -- OfficeJet T65
> DJ6xx -- OfficeJet 570, 600, 700, PSC 390
>
> Keep in mind that even though I generally test with only one model in each
> series, the results should apply to all models in that series.  Of course,
> if anybody finds that not to be the case, then please let me know.  :-)
> I also didn't test with the PSC 500, but it should be the same as the R
> series (DJ8xx).
>
> I managed to resolve the problem I was experiencing yesterday with the 570,
> which actually applied to all of the models that use the DJ6xx driver.  It
> turned out to be the exact same problem that Joe recently reported where
> print jobs didn't come out after I rearranged the escape sequences that
> ptal-printd sent before jobs.  This time, the hpinkjet code was the
> culprit. The bug was in global code rather than in code specific to the
> DJ6xx driver. I hacked one file in it to prevent it from sending the <Esc>E
> before the UEL (<Esc>%-12345X) before the job.  The patch is available in a
> new section at "http://hpoj.sourceforge.net/todo.shtml", and I will notify
> the hpinkjet developers so they can hopefully include it in later releases.
>
> Joe, since I had trouble getting the OfficeJet 600 to work, I was surprised
> that you were successful.  I'm guessing that you were printing directly to
> /dev/lpX instead of ptal-printd, because it worked for me when I did that.
> I even tried downgrading to 0.7, and that didn't work either.

I set up the queue to print to /dev/lpX, according to the hpinkjet 
instructions. I initially tried to use ptal-printd, but had no luck with it.

I'm a little confused about using ptal-printd in combination with the 
hpinkjet driver, which comes with its own 'print server' (hpijs). Will 
ptal-printd continue to be important?

Is the patch meant to allow the hpinkjet driver to print to ptal-printd? 

-- 
Joe