[Suns-at-Home] PPD file for HP-4050N printer needed for StarOffice 5.2 on Sparc box

[Craig Dewick]

Hi Hugh,

> > I have even tried printing to a file and manually printing using 'lp -d
> > hplaser testfile.ps' and the result is the same, so something must be
> > wrong with the postscript code that StarOffice is generating.
> 
> The files *are* postscript, aren't they? Check that they really
> do begin;
> 
> %!PS-Adobe-3.0
> 
> If not, the printer may throw them away....

No, they are definitely PostScript. Here's the first few lines of the test
file I tried to send manually to the printer after getting StarOffice to
save it out to a file:


%!PS-Adobe-3.0
%XpPrinter-Model: Generic Printer
%%Creator: Wind/U Xprinter Version 3.1.0 (sol2) (Compile Date: Mar  9 2000 12:01:23) (craig)
%%Title: 
%%CreationDate:Mon Dec  4 18:33:07 2000
%%DocumentSuppliedResources: (atend)
%%Pages: (atend)
%%LanguageLevel: 2
%%EndComments
%%BeginProlog


As you can see, it's telling the printer that the file contains PS level 2
data. It wasn't until I reconfigured StarOffice to use PS level 1 instead
of 2 (even though the printer supports level 2) that it worked.

I posted another message to the list detailing what I did...

Regards,

Craig.

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