New printer?

[Asheville Joe]

Duh!  That's why I'm asking for reccomendations for a new printer.

Joe

Robert Meyer wrote:

>If your printer supports duplex operation, you should be able to make 'xpp' do
>it.  If you have a simplex printer, then, no matter what you do, you will have
>to babysit the thing so that you can flip and feed the paper.
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>Cheers!
>
>Bob
>--- Asheville Joe <josephj at main.nc.us> wrote:
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>>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.
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>>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
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>>Robert Meyer wrote:
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>>>Well, first of all, I would start using 'xpp' for printing.  It will bring
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>>up a
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>>>dialog box similar to the type of thing you would get in windows that will
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>>give
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>>>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.
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>>>You should also be able to control the resolution and printing modes, which
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>>>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.
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>>>That should get you to where you want to be without buying a new printer.
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>>>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:
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>>>>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.
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>>>>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.
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>>>>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
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>>>>shore for a very long time." --Andre Gide
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