Chewie wrote: > I believe Perry is referring to the cursed Deskjet 720/820/1020 > Series. In order to use these color deskjet printers, you need to use > the reverse engineered pnm2ppa drivers. Debian packages them (oh, > wait...I'm the maintainer *grin*). And I believe you can find them > at: > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/pnm2ppa/ On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 02:34:07PM -0600, ScanMan wrote: > Why would they open-source one driver, but force ppl to reverse engineer > the other one? It has to do with HP's unmovable position that providing the specs to the technology used in said DJ models would compromise the security of their position in the market. Why else do large companies play "hide the perl"? Consult the email archives for pnm2ppa for more details. -- Chad Walstrom <chewie at wookimus.net> | a.k.a. ^chewie http://www.wookimus.net/ | s.k.a. gunnarr Get my public key, ICQ#, etc. $(mailx -s 'get info' chewie at wookimus.net) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20011217/f945e957/attachment.pgp