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which ink-jet printers is Ghostscript compatible with?



Maybe I'm asking a rhetorical question, but has anybody put a serial line
sniffer on one of these winprinters and seen what the protocol consists
of?  I'm sure that a driver could be written, though I think the best way
to do it would be to have it setup like a filter so that you would direct
all your output to like /dev/hp720c that would then pound it into tin that
winprinter could understand and ship it out /dev/lp*

Tim.

On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Christoph Doerbeck A242369 wrote:

> 
> Glenn Burkhardt wrote:
> > >  
> > > What's the difference between a winprinter and a printer that requires
> > > the software to essentially specify every dot?
> > 
> > My definition of a WinPrinter is one that doesn't accept a file copied to the
> > printer port.  If one is running a DOS only machine, the command
> > 
> 
> I support the concept that a win-printer is anything that supports a
> proprietary protocol which is only developed and support on WinBlows.
> 
> There is nothing "evil" about removing smarts from a printer to reduce
> cost.  Provided of course...  that the protocol is open.  It's a real
> pitty because the HP 72x and other PPA printers are really nice (and cheap)
> color units.  Oh well...
> 
> 
> 
> - Christoph
> 
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