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HP-PPA-Printing-HOWTO

Fco Javier Sedano Jarillo <jsedano@it.uc3m.es>

Ver. 1.03 - 01 November 2000

ABSTRACT: this document helps installing a Hewlett-Packard DeskJet 710, 712, 720, 722, 820 and 1000 series printer. This filter takes output from GhostScript in any pnmraw format (pbmraw, black&white; ppmraw, color; and pgmraw, grayscale) and outputs PPA, which is usu- ally fed directly to the printer port. PPA is a proprietary protocol created by HP to print via the bi-directional parallel printer port to their new generation of inkjet printers. This filter might work on any PPA based printer given a little effort.

1. Introduction

1.1 Legal Matters
1.2 Disclaimer
1.3 Supported printers
1.4 Availability
1.5 For users of older versions of this document
1.6 Mailing lists
1.7 Further information
1.8 The software
1.9 Before installing
1.10 PPA protocol
1.11 Dealing with problems
1.12 For the beginner

2. Compilation/installation

2.1 Compilation
2.2 Installing binaries and configuring filter.
2.3 Integrating with BSD spooler system
2.4 Integrating with PDQ printing system.

3. Calibration

3.1 Adjusting xoffset and yoffset. Light way
3.2 Adjusting xoffset and yoffset. heavy way
3.3 Adjusting margins
3.4 Adjusting shearing
3.5 Adjusting color offset
3.6 Adjusting blackness
3.7 Other adjustments
3.8 Color correction. Using Gamma indexes
3.9 Color correction. Using gammafile

4. Cleaning the print heads

5. Credits

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