kristi Posted June 16, 2005 Report Share Posted June 16, 2005 (edited) My Canon i850 died, so i got a HP Deskjet 5740. When installing it with 2005A , Config your Desktop, peripherals, printer, it offers me a "5740" and a "5740 ijs". What's the difference and which one should I use? (I did a test page for each and they look identically great) tia!!! Kristi Edited June 16, 2005 by kristi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted June 16, 2005 Report Share Posted June 16, 2005 which one to use? depends on what you want to do with your printer. for an average home-workstation you probably don't need the ijs driver. about ijs, read more here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spinynorman Posted June 16, 2005 Report Share Posted June 16, 2005 I don't have any personal experience of this, but my research has led me to a different conclusion from arctic. :P There's an FAQ at hpinkjet.sourceforge.net, which describes 2 HP drivers (hplip & hpijs) - presumably the ones you're referring to - and www.linuxprinting.org recommends the use of the hpijs driver. Take your pick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted June 16, 2005 Report Share Posted June 16, 2005 I don't have any personal experience of this, but my research has led me to a different conclusion from arctic. :P <{POST_SNAPBACK}> booooh...! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kristi Posted June 17, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 17, 2005 I was under the impression that many things printed using ghostscript and therefore I would be betteroff with the ijs one. Right now I'm using a draft version of the plain (yeah, I assume that's the "lid" one). Damn that's fast! dunno!!!!! As far as printers and Linux goes I should be tickled pink if it performs this well, so I guess I'm tickled pink :D Can't get it to print the footers on a web page in opera, though. Ahhhhhhh n- firefox outputs to postscript, Opera doesn't kwrite does great with headers and footers. Before I posted that question I googled and found "ijs" and "lid" but no where did it tell me which to use. Guess I'll call HP! Thanks all!!! Kristi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kristi Posted June 17, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 17, 2005 Well, I've had some time to read this stuff and I think I know less than I did before, but: Q. What drivers are available?A.Two drivers are available: 1) HPIJS is the basic printing driver that supports printing from CUPS, LPD, PPR, and other spoolers. 2) HPLIP is a complete imaging and printing system for CUPS that includes HPIJS. the 2 choices I have are HP and HPIJS. It is not clear that HP =>HPLIP I would need to ask someone like Adam exactly what module is included in Mandriva. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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