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HP Deskjet Printers??
Authored by: techweenie1 on Mar 24, '02 12:17:19PM

I tried this feature out with my Deskjet 930C, however when it came time to select the print model, I notice that none of the HP Deskjet models were being shown, only laserjet printers. Regardless, I picked generic, which just caused the printer to endlessly print crap. Is there a fix for this? Thanks in advance.



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HP Deskjet Printers??
Authored by: lamon on Mar 25, '02 02:43:55AM

I don't have Win 2000, but I'd say that the Microsoft lpd works only with postscript printers, or at least printers you have the driver of on Mac OSX.

I have a windows 95 machine at home, with a Canon BJC-6200 connected, which is not supported by Mac OSX. In order to print, I found a freeware lpd on the net that worked on W95 and set it up to pipe the input through ghostscript and then the printer. That way I emulated a postscript network printer which I could use from the mac.

I'm happy to say that results are quite correct, even when printing photos.



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HP Deskjet Printers??
Authored by: balthisar on Mar 25, '02 10:55:00AM

That's right, inkjets aren't supported this way; only PostScript.

In 2000 and NT (but not XP, I think) you can enable Print Services for Macintosh, which has a PostScript interpreter. Then, you could send PostScript to Windows, and let Windows convert it to PCL for the printer. The problem is, Mac OS X ONLY supports PostScript Level 2, and the NT boxes only support PostScript Level 1, so it won't work!

You can try searching for "balthisar" here for how to get GhostScript working on your Mac. THEN, with lpd enabled on the NT/2000 box, you should be able to print to the shared Windows printer. OR, if you install SAMBA on the Mac, I think you could use the GhostScript method to print to ANY Windows-shared printer.

Direct link to the GhostScript instructions:
http://homepage.mac.com/balthisar/HPNetworkInkjet.sit

This works, of course, with a print server box, like an HP JetDirect. It's up to you to figure out SAMBA if you want that approach. Otherwise, the NT/2000 box SHOULD look like print server box once LPD is enabled -- adapt the GhostScript instructions as per the instructions in this hint.

Good luck.



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