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by **Stev** » Tue, 25 Nov 1997 04:00:00

When printing man pages, I get character duplication and some
erroneous underscores on text that displays on screen as highlighted
(bright white) text .

Example Command:
man grep | lpr

Example Outputs:
stdout = NAME #Bright White
printed = N NA AM ME E

stdout = grep [ - [ [AB] ] num ] #Bright White
printed = g gr re ep p [ - - [ [AB] ]_ n_ u_ m ]

All other text prints normally.

I have a Dell XPS Pro200n running RedHat 4.1, an HP694C printer,
Ghostscript 3.33.

I configured the printer using Control Panel as follows:
Printer Driver: HP DeskJet 550/560C/600 series
Color Depth: 3 Normal color with color cart.
Suppress Headers is checked
Convert ASCII to PS is checked
Send page break is NOT checked

by **Roy Stogn** » Tue, 25 Nov 1997 04:00:00

>When printing man pages, I get character duplication and some
>erroneous underscores on text that displays on screen as highlighted
>(bright white) text .

>Example Command:
>man grep | lpr
>Example Outputs:
>stdout = NAME #Bright White
>printed = N NA AM ME E

This is because formatting codes understood by your terminal to mean
"Bright white" get misunderstood by your printer to mean "funky symbol
repetition".

Quote:>I have a Dell XPS Pro200n running RedHat 4.1, an HP694C printer,
>Ghostscript 3.33.

>I configured the printer using Control Panel as follows:
>Printer Driver: HP DeskJet 550/560C/600 series
>Color Depth: 3 Normal color with color cart.
>Suppress Headers is checked
>Convert ASCII to PS is checked
>Send page break is NOT checked

I assume from the above that you have postscript printing working
correctly. If so, then "man -t grep | lpr" will work perfectly.

When in doubt, "man -h" or "man man" would have helped.
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Roy Stogner

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Printing man page problem

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