Re: GHOSTSCRIPT -> HLLIP -> HP OfficeJet Pro 8600

I have Fedora 27 with hplip-3.18.4-3.fc27.x86_64

The command below will show which OfficeJet printers it supports. (There is probably a better way...)

  strings /usr/bin/hpijs | grep -i officejet | less

On my version, it does not show any 8600 models.

It does have "Officejet Pro 8500", so you could try a command like

  gs -sDEVICE=ijs -sIjsServer=hpijs -dIjsUseOutputFD -dIjsUseOutputFD -sDeviceManufacturer="HP"  -sDeviceModel="Officejet Pro 8500" -sOutputFile=/tmp/print.dat tiger.ps

and see if you get lucky. I found a review of the 8600 that says that it is an update of the 8500, and it looks like the review is a cut-and-paste of an 8500 review so much that they didn't even change all of the occurrences of 8500 to 8600. https://www.lifewire.com/hp-pro-8600-printer-review-2768880

I have access to a CentOS 7 system. It has hpijs from hpijs-3.15.9-3.el7.x86_64 and also has an entry for "Officejet Pro 8500".
Regards, William


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From: gs-devel <[email protected]> on behalf of Homer Wilson Smith <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2018 6:52 PM
To: Chris Liddell
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [gs-devel] GHOSTSCRIPT -> HLLIP -> HP OfficeJet Pro 8600


> When you say you can't get Ghostscript to work at all, can be a bit more
> descriptive - not found, crash, error....?
>
> Chris

      Newbie stupidity.

      Centos 7, ghostscript 9.07 works fine with screen and pcl3 with no
options, however the pcl3 is in black and white rather than color.  If we
can fix that, we are done.

      However in continuing to try to use HPLIP the following results:

      Notice I have tried many different names in the Model line,
including the one taken from the supported HPLIP printers page, none of
which change the error message.  Perhaps some understanding of what the
error is referring to would be useful.

     And some solid documentation on the GS/HPLIP interface, options etc.
#!/bin/bash

gs \
-sDEVICE=ijs \
-sIjsServer=hpijs \
-dIjsUseOutputFD \
-sDeviceManufacturer="HP"  \
-sDeviceModel="Officejet_Pro_8600" \
/tmp/data.ps

[root@vm2 ~/bat]#

Script started on Sat 16 Jun 2018 06:44:49 PM EDT
[root@vm2 ~/bat]# ./testgs

GPL Ghostscript 9.07 (2013-02-14)
Copyright (C) 2012 Artifex Software, Inc.  All rights reserved.
This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
GPL Ghostscript 9.07: **** Could not open the file  .
**** Unable to open the initial device, quitting.
[root@vm2 ~/bat]#


Script done on Sat 16 Jun 2018 06:44:58 PM EDT