Re: [hpoj-devel] Double-sided printing

[Bill W. <wo...@ne...>]

Judd Montgomery <ju...@jp...> writes:
> I'm using the cdj970 ghostscript driver and use the -dDuplex=2 option. 

  Where is this cdj970 driver you speak of? I had my head in gs 5.10,
  5.50 and 6.50 today (long day). Didn't see it anywhere.

  Meanwhile, I tried to compile the new inkjet drivers (DJ9XX). I say
  compile since I'm running a Debian system and while I was able to
  create .debs from the RPMs with alien, the package name was
  different and thus didn't replace gs nor its dependencies. The
  install therefore failed because it wanted to overwrite existing
  files which dpkg won't let you do.

  So, I downloaded all the sources on the sources in
  ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/gnu/gs550/ and
  http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/hpinkjet/hpijs0.94.tar.gz and got
  this while compiling gs5.50:

    [wohler@gbr:803]$ make -f unix-gcc.mak prefix=/usr/local
    gcc `cat ./obj/cc.tr`  -O2 -Wall -Wcast-align -Wstrict-prototypes
        -Wwrite-strings -fno-common  -I. -I./obj -I. -I./obj  -o
        ./obj/zdevcal.o -c ./zdevcal.c 
    ./zdevcal.c: In function `calendar_get_params':
    ./zdevcal.c:53: storage size of `ltime' isn't known
    ./zdevcal.c:55: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
    ./zdevcal.c:55: initializer element is not constant
    ./zdevcal.c:55: (near initialization for `items[0].offset')
    ...

  I probably won't pursue that path, but am curious why struct tm
  didn't get defined. After a few years of programming in Java, I have
  happily forgotten how to follow the spaghetti in /usr/include.

  I finally broke down and ran:

    [root@gbr:942]# dpkg --install --force-overwrite ghostscript-hpijs_5.50-2_i386.deb 

  gs --help shows the DJ9xx driver and it appears to work although I
  haven't noticed any difference in print quality for text. Ah, just
  printed a photo--there's the difference! (Possible to get my old 300
  dpi laser printer quality on the text on this 600 dpi OJ G85
  printer?)

  Another strange thing is that lprngtool doesn't show the new
  drivers... Any thoughts on why not?

  The example on the hpinkjet site explains that the duplex printing
  isn't working yet :-(.

-- 
Bill Wohler <wo...@ne...>  http://www.newt.com/wohler/  GnuPG ID:610BD9AD
Maintainer of comp.mail.mh FAQ and mh-e. Vote Libertarian!
If you're passed on the right, you're in the wrong lane.