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I have an epson action laser 1500.  I don't believe
there is a driver in Linux for this hardware so I know
I need to use ghostscript (I have 5.5).  What do
I need to change in StarOffice printer setup to
use gs.

Obviously I am new to all this...

Thanks for the help.

J.D.

Quote:> I have an epson action laser 1500.  I don't believe
> there is a driver in Linux for this hardware so I know
> I need to use ghostscript (I have 5.5).  What do
> I need to change in StarOffice printer setup to

I had the same problem with my printer.  I have a Lexmark
4037 5e.  Fortunately, most companies make their printers
to emulate HP's "PCL" language.  I contacted Lexmark
and got the escape sequences to switch the printer into
PCL mode.  I just wrote a small C program(about 5 lines)
to send the escape sequences and put the program
in "/etc/profile".  Since I have my computer dual booted
with Win95, I also had to write the same type of program
to change the printer to native "PPDS" mode.  That was
placed in my "AUTOEXEC.BAT".

Then, I just set the printer type to "HP Laserjet" in Linux.
Worked great.

I just looked at a "FAQ" on Epson's FTP site

        ftp://ftp.epson.com/laser/AL15QA.TXT

and it says that the Action Laser can emulate the HP LJ III.

Tech Specs:  ftp://ftp.epson.com/laser/AL15SP.TXT

You may want to have more than 512KB of buffer memory for
printing stuff with Ghostscript.  My printer has 2.5MB,
which
works great.

If you are planning on using it with Linux only, you should
be
able to set it permanently into "HP PCL 5" emulation mode.
But,
if your computer is "dual booted", you will want this done
automatically.

It will probably be a challenge to get the escape sequences
from
Epson.  You may want to post a message on one of their
newsgroups.