DVCS (was Re: Moving to D)

[Daniel Gibson]

Am 14.01.2011 22:54, schrieb Walter Bright:
> Daniel Gibson wrote:
>> Am 14.01.2011 20:50, schrieb Walter Bright:
>>> Daniel Gibson wrote:
>>>> But a few years ago it was a lot worse, especially with cheap inkjets.
>>>> Many supported only GDI printing which naturally is best supported on
>>>> Windows (GDI is a windows interface).
>>>
>>> Yeah, but I bought an *HP* laserjet, because I thought everyone
>>> supported them well.
>>>
>>> Turns out I probably have the only orphaned HP LJ model.
>>
>> Yes, the HP Laserjets usually have really good support with PCL and sometimes
>> even Postscript.
>> You said you've got a HP (Laserjet?) 2300?
>
> Yup. Do you want a picture? <g>

No, I believe you ;)

>
>> On http://www.openprinting.org/printer/HP/HP-LaserJet_2300 it says that
>> printer "works perfectly" and supports PCL 5e, PCL6 and Postscript level 3.
>
> Nyuk nyuk nyuk
>

The hplip version in Ubuntu 8.04 and in Ubuntu 9.10 support your printer - I 
don't know about your version, because Ubuntu doesn't list it anymore, but I'd 
be surprised if it didn't support it as well ;)
hplips docs say that the printer is supported when connected via USB or "Network 
or JetDirect" (but not Parallel port, but probably the printer doesn't have one).
It may be that Ubuntu doesn't install hplip (HPs driver for all kinds of 
printers - including the LaserJet 2300 ;)) by default.
That could be fixed by
"sudo apt-get install hplip hpijs-ppds"
and then trying to add the printer again (if there's no Voodoo to do that 
automatically).

Cheers,
- Daniel