1. PRINTING POSTSCRIPT TO NON-POSTSCRIPT PRINTER - help...
hi everyone
i've been trying to get my printer(s) set up on my system and i am able
to print plain ascii onto both my epson (really old nasty thing that it
is) and my deskjet.. now, it would be much nicer (and less costly) if i
could print postscript to these non-postscipt printers so i found out
about ghostscript. (i have actually got ghoscript 2.6.2 on my system
and read up on it.)
i found a very 'simple' (nothing is simply really is it? :-) ) pipeline
that was to print ps on a non-ps printer - ok me thinks so i try it out
using a ps doucment i found, and executed:
gs -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=epson -sOutputFile= | lpr file.ps
i removed the 'filter' (the 'if') entry from /etc/printcap just to be
sure that what was going to be printed was the output of this file
however the printer output the 'lovely' ps as the ascii-ps code; ie
beginning the file with
%!PS-Adobe-2.0
...
%%EOF
(i actually viewed the ps file using ghostview and it is valid
postscript)
i also tried out a ps-printcap i found tat did the 'print ps on non-ps
printer' trick - here is the lsm entry
Title: ps-printcap
Version: 1
Entered-date: 22NOV95
Description: printcap and filter: printing postscript on non-postscript
\
printer + text as postscript Keywords: Postscript Printing text
Maintained-by:
Primary-site:
sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/Printing/ps-printcap.tgz
and the files in the tgz were:
/etc/printcap
lp: \
:lp:lp=/dev/lp1: \
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp: \
:mx%0: \
:if=/etc/filter: \
:sh:
/etc/filter
#!/bin/sh
# Set the PRINTER var to a "gs" device.
# Try gs -h for a list of drivers
#PRINTER=djet500 # original - changed to try out my epson
#PRINTER=deskjet
PRINTER=epson
nenscript -ZB -p- | gs -q -sDEVICE=$PRINTER \
-dA4 -dNOPAUSE \
-dSAFER -sOutputFile=- -
i installed these and tried to print ascii text files but these were
unsuccessful. (i have nenscript 1.13++ installed). i even tried
nenscript -ZB -p- | gs -q -sDEVICE=$PRINTER -dA4 -dNOPAUSE -dSAFER
-sOutputFile=- - | lpr
from the command line
can someone *please* tell me where i'm going wrong on this but even
better, can someone please give me information (or preferably send me)
for setting up their /etc/termcap and /etc/filter files for PRINTING
POSTSCIPT onto my NON-POSTSCRIPT printers which are:
epson lq100 (told you it was really old and nasty!!!)
hp 600
this would be a greate help for my work. any help and advice will be
greatly appreciated and i'll definitely give you acknowledgement in my
work !!! (no hard cash i'm affraid - i'm still studying :-) )
cheers
ray
ps - can people cc their replies to me - thanks again
anyone who has viewed src code in 1up will know what a help it is to
have something that'll dump 2 or 4 (or even 6) pages of src code onto
one a4 page!!!
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