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From: Jennifer Wong <jenny@gattaca.biochem.usyd.edu.au> Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 12:54:38 +1100 (EST) Subject: PPR: ppr and hp printers hi, i'm running ppr-1.40 on a redhat linux 6.0 server with netatalk and samba installed on it, and i am having lots of troubles getting it working! my department, unfortunately, has lots of Hewlett-Packard laserjet printers (including a colour laserjet 4500N and a designjet 455CM large-format printer) and i've been told by some friends that the main reason for this is that the HPs don't talk postscript properly, but rather, speak pjl. so, the best fix i can think of at the moment is to find some apple laserwriter drivers that will support the various options of the printers. i would happily use laserwriter II NT, however it doesn't support colour or large size paper and only has 300dpi. our laserjet 4050N can print up to 1200dpi and i'd like to find a driver which i can use on that. does anyone have any suggestions for what i should use? or any other way to get around this pjl problem? i can't just pass through the print jobs because we are also keeping count of how many pages are being printed etc. (esp. for the colour printers). regards, jenny - -- Jennifer Wong ph: 9351 2499 Computer Systems Officer fax: 9351 6009 Department of Biochemistry G08 mob: 0417 661 611 The University of Sydney NSW 2008 jenny@biochem.usyd.edu.au