That is a great question. If you look at the bounty page I am at the top of the list "Aaron Smith" on the front of the page. It was about a year ago and have never seen a word about it. It is the same number of people on the list as last year. Where is the progress report??

http://haiku-os.org has great weekly reports on the work that is getting done. It would be nice to see some accountability for the money that is getting donated. It also would encourage others to join in and donate as well. Look like lot of money is just in never never land. No communation no donations.



I have not donated again as a result. People want to "see" a report even if its 1 time a month.

I just woke up and am going to spend some lae night hours working on this.
Even I, as impatient as I am, could live with one report per month.
I started out in the computer world as a developer.
I will report back what I find out about automating foo2zjs with TurboPrint.

Well, that screws that. Aminet went down. Shi-ite.

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Can you email that to me?
Aminet is down.

rll@twc.com

ok, Aminet came back up.

Can someone help me with ghostscript?

This produces an on screen blank page:

cat april.ps | gs -q -sDevice=ppm -sOutputFile=- >april.ppm


I am attempting to convert a color postscript file into a ppm.

Not working.
Supposed to go to a file, not put up a viewing window.

btw: I copied gs by itself to a separate folder. perhaps it needs to be run out of its own folder. it is normally in sys:applications/ghostscript. It is version 8.70.


[ Edited by bash64 18.02.2015 - 23:37 ]

Is the command line on the postscript tab in printer preferrences only executed if you print to the PS: assign?

I have changed it to:

Ghostscript:GS -sDEVICE=turboprint -q | Ghostscript:foo2zjs

I'm in Austria now without an access to any Morphos machine. After returning Poland i'll check polluks' port if it is suitable for my printer system. In theory this driver should work outofthebox. The system reads cups-filter key from PPD file and run defined program after converting postscript/image to CUPS image raster code.

I had to fix some items in new SCANdal (1.7) version which will be available in MorphOS 3.8 and after Mos 3.8 relase i'm going to finish printer bounty. I know that the bounty is delayed but life and morphos related things (like further reggae development) are time consuming.

sorry but what is needed on morphos to print, what are the current technologies supported?

hi

Currently three options for a new printers:
- Postscript printer (direct printing or using beta of my print system)
- Printer with PCL5 support (using Turboprint)
- Some samsung printers using SPL languaga using my print system


And i suggest laser pritners. Ink ones has various protocols and rarely works using PCL5 now.

There are some models of printers known that you can buy?

hi

Kyoceras/Triumph-Adler and HP (only those which have PCL5 or postscript support)

I can look in the compatibility list on the website of morphos

thanks

Compatibility list on morphos webpage is copypasted from turboprint documentation and only contain old printers.

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I have an OKI B4350 that works both in PS mode as well as directly via TurboPrint (using some HPLaserJet6 series driver).

here is the info from my PPD file.
where do I put the binaries?
should I change the path to them?

*FormatVersion: "4.3"
*FileVersion: "1.1"
*LanguageVersion: English
*LanguageEncoding: ISOLatin1
*PCFileName: "FOO2ZJS-.PPD"
*Manufacturer: "HP"
*Product: "(HP LaserJet CP1025nw)"
*cupsVersion: 1.0
*cupsManualCopies: True
*cupsModelNumber: 2
*cupsFilter: "application/vnd.cups-postscript 0 foomatic-rip"
*%pprRIP: foomatic-rip other
*ModelName: "HP LaserJet Pro CP1025nw"
*ShortNickName: "HP Las.Jet Pro, foo2zjs-z3"
*NickName: "HP LaserJet Pro CP1025nw Foomatic/foo2zjs-z3 (recommended)"
*PSVersion: "(3010.000) 550"
*PSVersion: "(3010.000) 651"
*PSVersion: "(3010.000) 652"
*PSVersion: "(3010.000) 653"
*PSVersion: "(3010.000) 704"
*PSVersion: "(3010.000) 705"
*PSVersion: "(3010.000) 800"
*LanguageLevel: "3"
*ColorDevice: True
*DefaultColorSpace: RGB
*FileSystem: False
*Throughput: "1"
*LandscapeOrientation: Plus90
*TTRasterizer: Type42
*1284DeviceID: "MFG:Hewlett-Packard;MDL:HP LaserJet CP1025nw;CMD:ZJS,PJL,ACL;DES:HP LaserJet CP1025nw;DRV:Dfoo2zjs-z3,R1,M0,TF;"

*driverName foo2zjs-z3/foo2zjs-z3: ""
*driverType F/Filter: ""
*driverUrl: "http://foo2zjs.rkkda.com/"
*driverObsolete: False


......



*FoomaticIDs: HP-LaserJet_Pro_CP1025nw foo2zjs-z3
*FoomaticRIPCommandLine: "foo2zjs-wrapper -z3 -P -L0 %A"



[ Edited by bash64 19.02.2015 - 12:48 ]

question:
which printer should I choose?
do I need to choose a non-postscript laserjet?
the cp1025nw is a raster printer.

do I need your beta printing system to even do any of this?
i am running mos 3.7 and using the TP interface with netprinter at this point.


[ Edited by bash64 19.02.2015 - 12:52 ]

I have gone back through this discussion and found the links to the beta printer system.
I will give it a try.
Should have read the whole thread before asking too many questions.


Seems that you print to the PRINTER: assign.

Now you're getting the idea

6. There are many PPD files available, PPD for postscript printers should work without problems,
ppd files for samsung printers are included in the archive. PPD for foomatic drivers won't work.


This is from the readme Zukow.
Very discouraging.
My PPD is setup for foomatic.
You can find a copy of my PPD in the foo2zjs archive on aminet.
You sure it will still work and run foo2zjs?

Brother appears to be a high quality printer. Will MorphOS start supporting all the Brother printers?

Brother printers tend to use the HP PCL language so should already work.

If yours has PCL then just select a similar HP Laserjet printer and test it.


[ Edited by bash64 20.02.2015 - 08:10 ]

should update the compatibility list

hi all

Installed beta printer system.
Copied foo2zjs to c:

Under Printers I Selected PPD.
Selected netprinter.device 0
Saved.

>copy april.ps printer:
not copied

Opened Pagestream 3.
Setup postscript printer with PPD and device printer:
Printed and nothing happened.

Device in Pagestream's device option needs to be "USBPAR:" not netprinter.device or anything else, as it uses the PRINTER device in Devs that you should have copied to the Devs folder - the one in the MOSSYS:Devs or MorphOS folder in the SYS: or SYSTEM: device.

This Beta printing package by Zukow is one of the ONLY times that you should/need to copy a DEVS: file into the MOSSYS: folders as in the main this folder has to be left unmodified or there is always a likelihood of some major disaster taking place in your MorphOS booting process. You do need to copy the other relevant files, such as the printer-handler in the Zukow archive, and others, into the MOSSYS: folders - contrary to normal protocol - as these files need to be found there for them to work as intended. Putting them in the standard System: folder will not get the Beta Printing system of Zukow working otherwise.

I am not using usb. This is a network printer. The usb port on the printer is broken.
I pointed pagestream to printer: