12.2. HP Winprinters
12.2. HP Winprinters
Some HP printers use "Printing Performance Architecture"
(marketing speak for "we were too cheap to implement PCL"). This
is supported in a roundabout way via the pbm2ppa translator
written by Tim Norman. Basically, you use ghostscript to render
PostScript into a bitmapped image in pbm format and then use
pbm2ppa to translate this into a printer-specific ppa format
bitmap ready to be dumped to the printer. This program may also
come in ghostscript driver format by now.
The ppa software can be had from the ppa home
page; pbm2ppa supports some models of the HP 720, 820,
and 1000; read the documentation that comes with the package for
more details on ppa printer support.