[Wolves] Printing with Deskjet 610C

[Mo Awkati]

Thanks very much Peter its really helpful. brilliant!

Mo


 --- Peter Oliver <p.d.oliver at mavit.freeserve.co.uk>
wrote: > On Sun, 29 Feb 2004, Mo Awkati wrote:
> 
> > I have a HP Deskjet 610C printer and I would like
> to
> > know how to vary the print quality e.g. Econo fast
> or
> > best Quality etc. Any idea how I can do this? 
> 
> First off, it's perhaps worth explaing breifly how
> printing works on UNIX.
> 
> Programs wishing to print typically produce output
> in a format called
> PostScript.  PostScript is a programming language
> for drawing pages, and
> is the predecessor of PDF.  High end laser printers
> support PostScript
> directly, but in an effort to save money, most of
> the printers you're
> likely to meet take data in simpler formats.
> 
> A program called Ghostscript is capable of taking
> PostScript input and
> reformatting it as your printer expects.  You tell
> your print daemon what
> kind of printer you have, and it runs jobs through
> Ghostscript (with
> suitable options) before sending them to your
> printer.
> 
> Hence, settings for quality are Ghostscript
> settings.  How you set them, 
> of course, depends on which particular print daemon
> you're using.  The 
> most modern is CUPS; if you're running this you can
> just point your web 
> browser at "http://localhost:631/" and follow the
> links.
> 
> -- 
> Peter Oliver
> 
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