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3. _C_h_a_n_g_e_s__a_n_d__A_d_d_i_t_i_o_n_s
3.1 _G_e_n_e_r_a_l__C_h_a_n_g_e_s__o_f__I_n_t_e_r_e_s_t__t_o__A_l_l__U_s_e_r_s
+o The PostScript interpreter is updated and is now a
level 2 interpreter. The PostScript interpreter is an
Adobe CPSI implementation (version 2015). See the
psrip(1) man page for details. Note: it is normal to
see two copies of psrip(1) running for every print job
(psrip(1) forks a copy of itself when it starts).
+o The PostScript interpreter uses a FLEXlm node-locked
software license. Without the license it will not
work. All HP and Epson printer drivers require the
PostScript interpreter. Impressario will start
printing warning messages on the banner page 90 days
prior to a license expiring (the banner page is forced
on in this case). Once a license has expired
Impressario will only print a notice that the license
has expired -- the job will not print. Emergency
licenses are available from the Silicon Surf web page
at http://www.sgi.com/Products/license.html.
+o The impr_rip and impr_rip_printers sub-systems are no
longer installed by default. These contain the printer
drivers that use the PostScript interpreter.
+o The HP DesignJet 750C plotter, HP DeskJet 660C,
850/855C, and 1600C color inkjet printers and the HP
4V, 4Plus, 4Si, 5L, 5P, 5Si LaserJet printers are now
supported.
+o HP JetDirect network adaptors are supported for various
printers (see chapter 2 for details of supported
printers and supported connection types). Other
printers and network adaptors that use a TCP port
connection can also be used. The list of network
adaptors and the port numbers to use are found in the
file /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/Printers in the
*NETPRINTER*netDevices resource. Known device TCP port
numbers are:
HP JetDirect internal interface cards: 9100
HP JetDirect EX external interface: 9100
HP JetDirect EX Plus3 parallel port 1: 9100
HP JetDirect EX Plus3 parallel port 2: 9101
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HP JetDirect EX Plus3 parallel port 3: 9102
Lexmark internal interface cards: 9100
Lexmark MarkNet XLe parallel port 1: 9100
Lexmark MarkNet XLe parallel port 2: 9102
Lexmark MarkNet XLe serial port: 9109
+o Lexmark Optra R, Rx, L, Lx and Lxi monochrome laser
printers are now supported.
+o Genicom 7910, 7912 and 7916 monochrome laser printers
are now supported.
+o Epson Color Stylus, Color Stylus Pro and Color Stylus
Pro XL are now supported.
+o A Generic Color PostScript driver has been added.
+o The HP 3C and 4C ScanJet scanners are now supported.
+o The Ricoh FS2 scanner is now supported.
+o ICC (International Color Consortium) color profiles are
now supported for color management of image files (GIF,
TIFF, etc.). Impressario will use the ICC color
profile to improve color fidelity when an image file is
printed. Gscan also supports ICC color profiles and an
ICC color profile tag will be added to all files
scanned with Gscan.
+o The fonts found in the Impressario 1.2 subsystem
impr_fonts.sw.adobe22 have been removed from the
Impressario product. The fonts are now bundled with
the base operating system starting with IRIX 6.2 (they
are found in the dps_eoe.sw.dpsfonts sub-system). The
font tools found in impr_fonts.sw.gifts have also been
moved to the base operating system starting with IRIX
6.2.
+o The Printer Manager will now list SCSI devices that
identify themselves as CPUs (i.e. some dye-sublimation
printers). Since some scanners also identify
themselves as CPUs it is possible to see a scanner
listed as a SCSI printer (there is no way to avoid this
as long as printer and scanner vendors identify their
SCSI devices as CPUs).
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+o When adding a printer, the Printer Manager will only
list a connection type if there is a driver installed
that supports the connection type. Example: if there
are no drivers to support a SCSI printer installed then
the option to select SCSI is not seen on the Add
Printers menu.
+o The chksupport utility has been removed (this was an
undocumented utility for directly manipulating inst
images).
+o fileconvert(1) has been removed from Impressario. It
is now a link to routeprint(1). routeprint(1) is
distributed with the base operating system. wstype(1)
has also been removed and is a link to filetype(1).
3.2 _C_h_a_n_g_e_s _o_f _I_n_t_e_r_e_s_t _t_o _P_r_i_n_t_e_r _a_n_d _S_c_a_n_n_e_r _D_r_i_v_e_r
_D_e_v_e_l_o_p_e_r_s:
+o The Impressario Developer's Kit is no longer a separate
option and is bundled with Impressario. IMPORTANT
NOTE: There are license restrictions regarding what
printers may be supported with an Impressario driver
(if that driver uses the Adobe PostScript interpreter).
Please see the Developer's Guide for details.
+o A new ASCII text to PostScript filter is available:
text2ps(1). All Impressario drivers now use text2ps to
convert ASCII text files to PostScript.
+o A new logical AND operator is now supported in POD
config files for Impressario driver developers. The
logical AND operation allows a list of fonts specified
in the POD config file to be ANDed with a directory
name. Typically you would AND a list of fonts
supported by a printer with the list of fonts in the
/usr/lib/DPS/outline/base directory to create the list
of fonts displayed on the glp options panel. This is
only done when using a printer's built-in PostScript
interpreter. (This is done because text2ps(1) requires
the font metrics to format a page correctly and you
would not want to list a font available on the printer
when the corresponding font metric is not available on
the host for use by text2psi(1)). See
/usr/lib/print/data/lexmarkoptra_model.config for an
example.
+o text2pcl has been updated to support A3 and B paper
sizes. text2pcl has also been changed to allow 66
lines to fit on an A sized paper.
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+o The "man -t" command now calls lp with the -manpage
option to format a manpage. Impressario model files
have been updated to support this. Developers should
also support the -manpage option in their model files.
+o In all Impressario printer model files the code block
that checks for the existence of the file
/usr/lib/filetype/workspace.ctr is now commented out.
In future IRIX releases this file will not exist so
developers should not be checking for it in their model
files. Note that the file name is also a command line
argument to fileconvert(1). Future versions of
fileconvert(1) will 'map' the
/usr/lib/filetype/workspace.ctr to a replacement name
(a default Optimized Type Rule, OTR, will be used in
the future). Since CTRs (Compiled Type Rules) will not
be supported in future IRIX releases developers should
check their model files to make sure they are not using
any other CTR files.
+o See the appendix in the Developer's Guide on
transitioning to Impressario 2.0 for more details.