New printer?

[Asheville Joe]

Thanks.  You told me about xpp previously and I do use it when I have to 
do something special.  It's just a pain to have to print everything 
twice to get both sides.  That's why I wrote my duplex printing 
simulator utility.  It works, but it doesn't know about all the fancy 
options that xpp handles.

I really want to get past having to shuffle the paper in and out for 
every job - which also means that I can't queue print jobs and go away.  
I did write a primitive print queue handler for use with duplex and use 
it all the time, but I still have to babysit it and shuffle each job.

Joe

Robert Meyer wrote:

>Well, first of all, I would start using 'xpp' for printing.  It will bring up a
>dialog box similar to the type of thing you would get in windows that will give
>you all of the options that the printer supports.  If the printer type is
>called out by type in the driver, then you should be able to do it.
>
>You should also be able to control the resolution and printing modes, which are
>the typical slowdowns on a printer.  Stuffing out text in photo mode is
>obviously bad but dropping to 300DPI draft mode will spray out text pretty
>quick.
>
>That should get you to where you want to be without buying a new printer.
>
>Cheers!
>
>Bob
>--- Asheville Joe <josephj at main.nc.us> wrote:
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>>I'm thinking about getting a new printer.  I have an HP Deskjet 895 Cse 
>>which works just fine with two exceptions:
>>
>>1) Under Linux, it prints about 2ppm at normal color resolution (and I 
>>don't know enough to fine tune the ps to pcl process, etc. to make it go 
>>faster).  It's a whole lot faster in Windoze.
>>
>>2) It doesn't do 2-sided (duplex) printing by itself (and that's almost 
>>all the printing I do.)  I've emulated duplex, but I still have to 
>>shufffle the pages in out and back in, one print job at a time.
>>
>>So, what I want is a similar printer that does duplex.   It has to be 
>>fully supported under Linux, of course.  I'm not sure, but it seems like 
>>a printer that can do native postscript (I have no idea if I need level 
>>1, 2, or 99) would run a lot faster than one that does PCL, etc. where 
>>the CPU has to translate all the ps to soemthing else before anything 
>>prints.
>>
>>Any suggestions?
>>
>>-- 
>>"One does not discover the new lands without consenting to lose sight of the
>>shore for a very long time." --Andre Gide
>>
>>
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