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Quote:>I just purchased and setup a new BubbleJet200e printer.  I got the bjf
>filter from sunsite and ordinary text prints excellently. There are still
>a few things I'd like to do with it.

I'm afraid I can't explicitly help you with anything that you listed.
However, I have a Canon bj200ex which I use with Linux.  To print text
I either use a simple text filter to get the carriage return right, or
use a2ps and pipe the results into GhostScript.
When I want to print ps for any reason, I use:
        gs -sDEVICE=bj200 -sOutputFile=/dev/lp1 foo.ps
(I believe.)

It should be relatively simple to set up a filter for the printer which is
called whenever you do an "lp file.ext".  It's basically just a little
shell script that outputs what you want to print.  Depending on .ext,
you could have it call your text converter or gs, and ship the file
to the printer.
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I just purchased and setup a new BubbleJet200e printer.  I got the bjf
filter from sunsite and ordinary text prints excellently. There are still
a few things I'd like to do with it.

1. Anybody have a /etc/printcap entry for a BJ200e that I can make mine from?
2. Are there any good scripts for managing printing so one command is capable
   of printing many different file types? "bjf < xxxx > /dev/printer" is a
   pain.
3. Anyone have any experience setting up the magicfilter program?

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 Peter L. Buschman        .   .--.

I'm using a Canon BJ200, and my girlfriend is using a Canon BJ200e.We
are using apsfilter, which is a magicfilter - able to deal with text
with a variety of options (2 pages text/piece of parer, landscape,
etc), as well as postscript, dvi, etc., etc.  It is self installing,
and very easy to set up.  Almost reminiscent of mindless microsoft
installations.  Anyways, I would recomment it to anyone with a
relatively common printer.  I got it from sunsite.unc.edu insomething
like /pub/Linux/distributions/slackware/source/extra-stuff/apsfilter.
I'm not sure about the last bit, but hunt around in the slackware
subdir, and you'll find it.

Good luck! :-)