pcl3 http://home.vrweb.de/martin.lottermoser/pcl3/index.html gs -q -dBATCH -dPARANOIDSAFER -dQUIET -dNOPAUSE -dNOMEDIAATTRS -dNOINTERPOLATE -sDEVICE=pcl3%A%Z -sOutputFile=- - Martin Lottermoser's general-purpose PCL 3+ Ghostscript driver, successor of the "<a href="show_driver.cgi?driver=hpdj">hpdj</a>" driver.<p> It is known to work reasonably well with a wide assortment of PCL 3 inkjet printers. This driver has many options (enter the command "man gs-pcl3" in a terminal window to get more information), so you can do a lot of fine-tuning, but do not expect perfect results with the default settings. Due to being able to set so many different options separately you can even make rather exotic non-HP printers printing. To find out their options you print into a file under Windows and then apply the "pcl3opts" command (comes with the driver) on the file. It returns the Ghostscript command line which most probably prints in the mode of the printer for which your file was generated under Windows.<p> <a href="http://www.openprinting.org/download/printing/ghostscript-8.x/patches/ghostscript-8.15-pcl3-driver-api8.patch">This patch</a> adapts the driver to GPL/AFPL Ghostscript 8.x. In ESP Ghostscript 8.x this driver is already included.<p> Unfortunately, GNU Ghostscript 5.50 (and also <a href="ftp://ftp2.easysw.com/pub/ghostscript/">ESP Ghostscript 5.50.1</a>) has a bug which often causes segmentation faults when high amounts of memory are needed (high resolutions, Floyd-Steinberg dithering). A workaround is to use Ghostscript's "-dMaxBitmap=value" option with "value" being the size of memory which Ghostscript should be allowed to allocate for rendering one page. Try values of 40000000 and higher. In the foomatic config files there is the option "Memory Limit" to control this. Note that Ghostscript can take up memory up to the given amount. So be sure that you have enough swap space and note that your machine will slow down considerably during the rendering process. This problem does not appear with GNU or Alladin Ghostscript 6.x and newer.<p> For many printers, the <a href="show_driver.cgi?driver=gutenprint">gutenprint</a> driver and the drivers from <a href="http://hpijs.sourceforge.net/">HP</a> may produce better color output.<p> printer/Apollo-P-1200 printer/Apollo-P-1220_Barbie printer/Apollo-P-1250 printer/Generic-PCL_3_Printer printer/HP-2000C printer/HP-2500C printer/HP-DesignJet_ColorPro_CAD printer/HP-DeskJet printer/HP-DeskJet_1100C printer/HP-DeskJet_1120C printer/HP-DeskJet_1220C printer/HP-DeskJet_200 printer/HP-DeskJet_310 printer/HP-DeskJet_320 printer/HP-DeskJet_340C printer/HP-DeskJet_350C printer/HP-DeskJet_400 printer/HP-DeskJet_500 printer/HP-DeskJet_500C printer/HP-DeskJet_510 printer/HP-DeskJet_520 pt 9 18 18 48 10 10 printer/HP-DeskJet_540 printer/HP-DeskJet_540C printer/HP-DeskJet_550C printer/HP-DeskJet_560C printer/HP-DeskJet_600 printer/HP-DeskJet_610C printer/HP-DeskJet_610CL printer/HP-DeskJet_612C printer/HP-DeskJet_660C printer/HP-DeskJet_670C printer/HP-DeskJet_680C printer/HP-DeskJet_682C printer/HP-DeskJet_690C printer/HP-DeskJet_694C printer/HP-DeskJet_697C printer/HP-DeskJet_832C printer/HP-DeskJet_840C printer/HP-DeskJet_842C printer/HP-DeskJet_845C printer/HP-DeskJet_850C printer/HP-DeskJet_855C printer/HP-DeskJet_870C printer/HP-DeskJet_880C printer/HP-DeskJet_882C printer/HP-DeskJet_890C printer/HP-DeskJet_895C printer/HP-DeskJet_932C printer/HP-DeskJet_940C printer/HP-DeskJet_950C printer/HP-DeskJet_952C printer/HP-DeskJet_960C printer/HP-DeskJet_970C printer/HP-DeskJet_980C printer/HP-DeskJet_990C printer/HP-DeskJet_Plus printer/HP-DeskJet_Portable printer/HP-OfficeJet printer/HP-OfficeJet_300 printer/HP-OfficeJet_330 printer/HP-OfficeJet_350 printer/HP-OfficeJet_600 printer/HP-OfficeJet_625 printer/HP-OfficeJet_635 printer/HP-OfficeJet_G55 printer/HP-OfficeJet_G95 printer/HP-OfficeJet_LX printer/HP-OfficeJet_Pro_1175C printer/HP-OfficeJet_T45 printer/HP-PhotoSmart_P1000 printer/HP-PhotoSmart_P1100 printer/HP-PhotoSmart_P1115 printer/HP-PhotoSmart_P1215 printer/HP-PhotoSmart_P1218 printer/HP-PhotoSmart_P1315 printer/HP-PSC_500 printer/Lexmark-1020_Business printer/Lexmark-3000 printer/NEC-SuperScript_100C printer/NEC-SuperScript_150C printer/NEC-SuperScript_650C printer/NEC-SuperScript_750C printer/Samsung-SI-630A printer/Sharp-AJ-1800 printer/Sharp-AJ-1805 printer/Sharp-AJ-2000 printer/Sharp-AJ-2005 printer/Xerox-DocuPrint_C11 printer/Xerox-DocuPrint_M750 printer/Xerox-DocuPrint_M760