Re: Printing with HP720C

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
20 Mar 1998 20:16:47 GMT

Followup to: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980320152422.13069A-100000@ufp.in-trier.de>
By author: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <linux@linux.net.eu.org>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, Papagrigoriou Nikos wrote:
>
> > Recently I bought an HP720C printer. But I cannot print under Linux. Is
> > there any driver for this printer?
>
> The HP720 is a GDI printer, meaning it is made for Windoze only. Writing a
> Linux driver would be a lot of hard work, pretty much rewriting all the
> Windoze graphics routines.
>

This is what GhostScript is for, seriously. The big issue is if the
format is documented well enough to get support into GhostScript.

-hpa

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