While we're on printers:
I've got an HP LJ 3550 printer (which I mainly keep for those occasions when I need colour prints, e.g. photos, but also as a readily portable B&W printer when I'm travelling away -- it's a very light and compact piece of kit).
This uses the HP IJS language, which is quite different from the classical HP PCL language (with which I have no problems).
I've been all round the houses, including deep research into www.linux-printing.org, without managing to get it working under Linux. (This involves setting up the 'ijs' driver under ghostscript). The Linux system in question is Red Hat 9.
What I do at present, on those occasions when I need it, is to boot into Windows (where I've installed the driver that came with the printer on CD), print to file, and then I've got a file which I can cat straight out to the printer (/dev/usb/lp0) from Linux whenever I want.
Can anyone advise on getting this working under RH-9?
I'd be very happy to simply get a program which converts from PostScript to IJS on the lines of
ps2ijs printjob.ps > /dev/usb/lp0
(indeed, I don't want to tangle with the printing system in RH-9 itself; just the conversion).
Thanks for any help, and best wishes to all, Ted.
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