Printer Compatibility
This page is a list of Ghostscript printer devices and
the printers with which they are compatible.
The format is:
- Ghostscript device (notes)
Compatible Printer (GS version tested) limitations/test notes
Another compatible printer (GS version tested) limitations/test notes
As you can see, this page is a bit short on detail.
I need your help to add more detail. If you know of
a printer that does not have a specific Ghostscript device
but does work with a related device, please send the
details to Russell Lang
so they can be added to this page.
Please don't send mail asking if a printer is compatible with a
Ghostscript device because you will only be referred to this page.
Disclaimer: the information on this page may not be correct.
See also the list of
available devices
and Devices.htm
For some new printers, you may find that there are no drivers built into
ghostscript. On Windows you may have to use the mswinpr2
device or Windows GDI printer from GSview.
For Linux, look at
LinuxPrinting.org for
details of available drivers.
- bj10e
Canon BubbleJet BJ10e
Canon BubbleJet BJ20 (5.10)
- bj200
Canon BubbleJet BJ200
Canon BubbleJet BJC-210 (4.01)
B/W only
Canon BubbleJet BJC-240 (3.33, 4.03)
B/W only
Canon BubbleJet BJC-250 (5.10)
B/W only
Canon BubbleJet BJC-70 (5.10)
B/W only
- bjc600
Canon BubbleJet BJC-600
Canon BubbleJet BJC-610 (3.53)
360dpi only, B/W & colour.
Canon BJC-50 (5.10)
B/W OK. Colour not tested.
Canon BJC-70 (5.01)
Canon BJC-80 (5.10)
Canon BJC-210 (5.10)
Colour. Use bj200 for B/W
Canon BJC-240 (5.01)
Colour. Use bj200 for B/W
Canon BJC-250 (5.50)
Canon BubbleJet BJC-1000
B/W OK. Colour not tested.
Canon BubbleJet BJC-2000
Colour and margins OK.
Canon BubbleJet BJC-4000
Canon BubbleJet BJC-4100 (4.01)
no colour.
For colour, use BJSETUP.EXE and the Epson LQ driver epson.
See
Russ Wright's Canon Printer Support Page.
Canon BubbleJet BJC-4200 (5.03)
Colour works.
Canon BubbleJet BJC-4300 (5.10)
Colour works,
but not with photo colour cartridge (BC-22e).
Canon BubbleJet BJC-4550 (3.33, 4.01, 5.03)
colour doesn't work in 3.33, but does in 4.01
In 5.03, colour only works for 24 and 32 bit/pixel.
Monochrome doesn't work.
Maximum width is limited to 8.5 inches.
Canon BubbleJet BJC-6000 (4.03)
360dpi, 24bit/pixel. Does not do CCMMYK (photo inks).
Colours look better with gamma correction.
Canon MultiPASS C2500 colour printer/fax/copier (3.53)
360x360dpi, B/W & colour, PRINTER button must be engaged
- bjc800
Canon BubbleJet BJC-800
Canon BubbleJet BJC-7000
Colour.
Canon BubbleJet BJC-4300 (5.10)
Colour works,
but not with photo colour cartridge (BC-22e).
Canon BubbleJet BJC-4650 (5.10)
Only works with 300dpi in colour. A3 printer.
- deskjet
HP DeskJet (3.33)
HP DeskJet Plus (3.33)
In GS 3.53 to GS 4.01, these don't work.
- djet500
HP DeskJet 500 (3.53)
HP DeskJet Portable (4.01)
HP OfficeJet 590 (5.50)
- cdj500
HP DeskJet 400 (5.10)
B/W
and Colour.
You must swap cartridges to print in colour.
HP DeskJet 500C (3.53)
HP DeskJet 540C (3.53)
HP DeskJet 690C (4.03)
1bit/pixel and 32bit/pixel
cdj550 is probably better.
HP DeskJet 693C (4.03)
For Colour. Use cdjmono for B/W.
cdj550 is probably better.
May work with other HP Colour DeskJet printers that use a
CMY (no black) ink cartridge.
See Devices.htm
- cdj550
HP DeskJet 550C (3.53)
HP DeskJet 560C (3.53)
HP DeskJet 600 (5.10)
black (1bit/pixel) and colour (32bit/pixel)
HP DeskJet 660C (3.53)
HP DeskJet 660C (5.10)
HP DeskJet 682C (4.01)
Use gamma=0.3
HP DeskJet 683C (3.33, 4.03)
HP DeskJet 693C (4.03)
24bit/pixel
Is this a CMY or a CMYK printer? Probably CMYK in which
case 32bit/pixel can be used.
HP DeskJet 694C (5.03)
Works in colour. 690C, 692C, 693C and 694C
are all software variations.
HP DeskJet 695C (5.50)
Works in colour.
HP DeskJet 850 (3.53) 300dpi CMYK (32bit/pixel)
See also cdj850.
HP DeskJet 870Cse (4.03) (16 or 32 bits/pixel)
Use ljet4 device for B/W.
See also cdj850.
HP DeskJet 895Cxi (5.03, 5.50)
Does not work with cdj850.
HP DeskJet 970 (5.50)
Some pages contain small black boxes, lines or missing characters.
HP DeskJet 1220C
HP OfficeJet 590 (5.50)
Olivetti jp450 (5.50)
Xerox XJ6C (5.50)
May work with other HP Colour DeskJet printers that use a
CMYK ink cartridge.
See Devices.htm
Any printer that works with this device will probably work
in black and white with djet500 and cdjmono.
- cdj850
HP DeskJet 850
HP DeskJet 855
HP DeskJet 870Cse (4.03)
HP DeskJet 870Cxi (4.03)
HP DeskJet 890C (5.10)
HP DeskJet 672C (5.03) Can't print B/W text
Prints B/W OK with cdj550.
This may also apply to any HP 67x printer.
HP DeskJet 680 (5.01)
HP DeskJet 1100C (5.10)
A3, with JetDirect card, B/W and images
This is not part of the standard distribution.
Information about this driver is available from
http://www.erdw.ethz.ch/~bonk/bonk.html.
The sources are available from
http://www.erdw.ethz.ch/~bonk/software.html.
Also available is a description of how to
adjust the margins.
Send bug reports for this driver to
uli@erdw.ethz.ch
See also OS/2 Ghostscript
- cdeskjet (3bit/pixel colour)
HP DeskJet 500C (3.53)
This is the same as -sDEVICE=cdj500 -dBitsPerPixel=3
- cdjcolor (24bit/pixel colour with Floyd-Steinberg dithering)
See cdj500
This is the same as -sDEVICE=cdj500 -dBitsPerPixel=24
- cdjmono (printing black only)
HP DeskJet 500C (3.53)
HP DeskJet 510 (3.53)
HP DeskJet 520 (3.53)
HP DeskJet 540C (3.53)
HP DeskJet 693C (4.03)
This is the same as -sDEVICE=cdj500 -dBitsPerPixel=1
- epsonc
Fujitsu DL-1100
Fujitsu DL-2400
- hl7x0
Brother HL 720 (6.0)
Brother HL 730 (6.0)
Brother MFC-7550MC (works better than ljet2p)
Brother MFC-9060 730 (5.5) Must use 600dpi.
Do not use hl7x0 with PCL compliant Brother HL 760. Use ljet4.
- laserjet
Bull Compuprint Pagemaster 415
HP LaserJet 1200 (5.10)
Texas Instruments microLaser, HP II emulation (7.07)
- lbp8
Canon LBP4+
Works but very slowly.
Try lips 3.
- lips3
Canon LBP4+
Also reported to print unwanted header and trailer.
- lj4dith
HP DeskJet 600 (3.53)
- ljet2
HP LaserJet II (5.10)
Xerox 4030 (5.10)
- ljet2p
Okidata OL400e (5.50)
- ljet3
HP LaserJet IIIp (5.10)
also ljet3d, ljet2p
Tandy LP800 (5.10)
With LaserJet III emulation.
- ljet4
Brother HL-660 (5.10)
Brother HL-760 (3.33)
600dpi
Brother MFC-9180 (7.05)
600dpi
Epson EPL5700 (5.50)
300dpi OK.
600dpi has some minor glitches (misplaced characters and smudgey dots).
Doesn't work with lj4dith at all.
HP DeskJet 600 (3.53) margins wrong
HP DeskJet 870Cse (4.03)
HP LaserJet 5 (4.01)
300dpi or 600dpi
HP LaserJet 5L (4.03)
300dpi or 600dpi
Margins wrong in GS 3.33. Correct in GS 4.03.
HP LaserJet 6L (5.10)
600dpi
Left margin needs to be adjusted (+5pt).
HP LaserJet 1100 (5.50)
600dpi OK.
IBM Network Printer 17 (5.50)
IBM/Lexmark 4029 (5.10)
Margins wrong.
Lexmark Optra E+ (5.03)
Lexmark Optra SC 1275 (5.50) B/W only.
Minolta PagePro 18 (6.01)
Oki OL410ex LED printer (4.03)
300dpi or 600dpi
Samsung ML-4600
300dpi or 600dpi
- ljetplus
HP LaserJet Plus (5.10)
Canon Laser LBP-600 (5.50)
NEC SuperScript 860 (5.10)
- pjxl300
HP PaintJet XL300
HP DeskJet 600 (3.53) 300dpi OK, 600 dpi is very slow
HP DeskJet 1200C (3.53)
HP DeskJet 1600C (4.03)
24bit/pixel.
-dShingling=2 -dDepletion=1 -dPrintQuality=1
- r4081
Ricoh 4081 laser printer (3.53)
Ricoh 6000 laser printer (3.53)
- stcolor
Epson Stylus Color (3.53)
Epson Stylus Color II (3.53) -r360 -dMicroweave
See Devices.htm.
Epson Stylus 400 (5.10)
-r360 is OK. For -r720, use -dSoftweave
Epson Stylus 500 (4.03) -r360 or -r720, -dMicroweave
(Doesn't work with 3.33.)
Epson Stylus 600 (5.10)
-r360 and -r720, -dMicroweave and -dSoftweave
Epson Stylus 800 (3.53) -sModel=st800
A page on using the Stylus Printer under Linux has been
written by
Michael Holve
See also the uniprint device.
- uniprint
See the Ghostscript file Devices.htm
This unified printer driver included in GS 5.10 comes with
configuration files for
- Canon BJC 610
- HP DeskJet 550C
- NEC P2X
- Epson Stylus Color
- Epson Stylus Color II
- Epson Stylus Color 500
- Epson Stylus Color 600
- Epson Stylus Color 800
- Epson Stylus Color 1520
- SUN rasterfile
Canon BJC-210 (5.10)
Colour. Use bjc610 configuration files
Epson Stylus Color 640 (5.50)
Use stc600pl.upp.
Epson Stylus Color 740 (5.50)
Use Epson Stylus Color 500 configuration files
or Any Epson Stylus Color, 360x360Dpi
Epson Stylus Color 850 (6.50)
Use Epson Stylus Color 800 configuration files.
Colours may not be accurate.
A driver for many HP DeskJet PCL3 printers
(e.g HP DeskJet 500, 500C, 510, 520, 540, 550C, 560C, 850C, 855C)
is available from
http://home.t-online.de/home/Martin.Lottermoser/pcl3.html.
This was written by Martin Lottermoser.
The HP DeskJet 720C, 722C, 820C and 1000C are PPA printers.
They will not work with the PCL drivers above.
You are expected to use PPA printers with a special Windows printer driver.
You might be able to use the Ghostscript mswinpr2 device which is
only available under Windows and talks to the Windows printer driver.
(HP DeskJet 720C and 722C printers appear to work with mswinpr2).
Another alternative is to use the test software
gsprint.
A PPA driver for the HP820C does exist for Ghostscript.
It was written without access to documentation.
See
ftp://ftp.ig.utexas.edu/outgoing/scottk/820C/
It has been reported that the HP DeskJet 1000C printer works with
the cdj550 device under Windows 95. This works only under Windows 95
because the Windows 95 printer driver includes a PCL interpreter.
This would not work under DOS or Unix because the printer
does not contain a PCL interpreter.
LinuxPrinting.org has
resources to help with free software printing problems.
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Updated 2003-12-07