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by **Meye** » Thu, 30 Oct 1997 04:00:00

HP states in its www pages that its deskjet printers aren't suited
for UNIX environments and ignores that those printers may be of
interest for personal UNIX like LINUX or for at situ printers
that perform small printouts or lovely color prints directly at
your workstation. The newer printer generation has only 2 buttons;
distributing Windows software seems to be cheaper. Also, the
poor manual doesn't give any information how to write a small
interface program. Hence:
Has anyone written a Linux operatable program (c, perl, sh, tcl ...)
that performs those things that the HP Windows program does?

On our LAN we installed a net printer HP Laserjet 5 SI NX. HP
gives installation aid for a couple of UNIX OS's; however I
couldn't find any software for LINUX. Is there anywhere software
for printing on that net printer via my LINUX machine?

Thanks
Albert
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www: http://www.tm.bi.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/~meyers

by **gippa** » Thu, 30 Oct 1997 04:00:00

> HP states in its www pages that its deskjet printers aren't suited
> for UNIX environments and ignores that those printers may be of
> interest for personal UNIX like LINUX or for at situ printers
> that perform small printouts or lovely color prints directly at
> your workstation. The newer printer generation has only 2 buttons;
> distributing Windows software seems to be cheaper. Also, the
> poor manual doesn't give any information how to write a small
> interface program. Hence:
> Has anyone written a Linux operatable program (c, perl, sh, tcl ...)
> that performs those things that the HP Windows program does?

> On our LAN we installed a net printer HP Laserjet 5 SI NX. HP
> gives installation aid for a couple of UNIX OS's; however I
> couldn't find any software for LINUX. Is there anywhere software
> for printing on that net printer via my LINUX machine?

There are quite a few HP filters on the net that will drive HP deskjet
printers. Do a search.

by **Meye** » Fri, 31 Oct 1997 04:00:00

[Posted and mailed]

>> HP states in its www pages that its deskjet printers aren't suited
>> for UNIX environments and ignores that those printers may be of
>> interest for personal UNIX like LINUX or for at situ printers
>> that perform small printouts or lovely color prints directly at
>> your workstation. The newer printer generation has only 2 buttons;
>> distributing Windows software seems to be cheaper. Also, the
>> poor manual doesn't give any information how to write a small
>> interface program. Hence:
>> Has anyone written a Linux operatable program (c, perl, sh, tcl ...)
>> that performs those things that the HP Windows program does?

>> On our LAN we installed a net printer HP Laserjet 5 SI NX. HP
>> gives installation aid for a couple of UNIX OS's; however I
>> couldn't find any software for LINUX. Is there anywhere software
>> for printing on that net printer via my LINUX machine?

> There are quite a few HP filters on the net that will drive HP deskjet
> printers. Do a search.

Thank you for your advise.

However, the problem is not the filter. Magicfilter e.g. supplies
quite a bit of them. I don't have any problem to print on my
DJ660C. However, adjusting the head, resetting the printer
etc. (problem stated No. 1) is handled by that Windows
control program, and I cannot find a UNIX equivalent.

Problem 2: Printing on the HP net printer 5SI is actually done
in that way, that I send the Laserjet ready file (handled by
magicfilter) to a Sparc workstation, that in turn submits to
the printer. This double expediture slows down net traffic;
Laserjet files are incredibly huge! Hence, the question is
how to send directly to the printer.

Thank you anyway
Albert

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www: http://www.tm.bi.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/~meyers

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