[mac-gs] HELP!!!

Grey Randall grey@narn.pecan-tree.com
Sun, 16 Feb 2003 09:55:43 -0500


Ever since going to OS X, I've been plagued with problems being able to
print to any of the printers I have/had.

For a long time, I had an Epson Stylus Photo 700  it worked great under OS
9.  There was even a USB driver made for people that had it connected via
USB to parallel adapter.  However, Epson refused to port that USB driver
over to OS X.  I had to get rid of a perfectly functional photo printer.

Next, my Deskjet 860C.. That too I had to get rid of because OS X wouldn't
support it.


Finally, I have a Deskjet 1600C with a network card in it.  I came across
Jim Derry's Network Printing guide.. And was able at last to get output.

However, the output had a yellow background when printing graphics, which
wouldn't do.  So I downloaded Ghostscript 7.04 and compiled it.  That
worked, I was able to include the hp drivers for it and was finally getting
the printing results I wanted.

My mac crashed, and I had to reinstall software.. Now, I can't get GS 7.04
or above to compile without errors, so I had to use the 6.5.05 version of
ghostscript.  Supposedly it has support for this the deskjet 1600c.. But
that only works if I select pjxl300.. This is the driver that prints yello
backgrounds if I print a graphic, or from Microsoft Entourage.

Is there any way to add the newer drivers that properly support the Deskjet
1600C into my current version of Ghostscript?  Is there a uniprint driver
for the deskjet 1600C?  Can anyone help???