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Anyone have a simple way to print to a dot matrix printer with ez or
ezprint?

Thanks.
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I run the fall 95 Yggdrasil release.  It comes with a set of print
filters (called "magicfilter").  These particular input filters will
identify the type of print stream (Postscript or what-have-you) and
handle them as necessary.  So now I'm able to print very nice postscript
on my poor 4 year old epson-ish panasonic 24 pin DM printer.

I dont know if magicfilter is available outside of the PnP release (ie:
on the net) but you *can* get input filters that will handle a postscript
stream to a dot matrix printer.

Does this help?

T'gr

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It is a nice package.  It comes with a lot of pregenerated printer
configurations for many popular printers.  When you build it, all you
have to do is take the filter built for your printer and insert it into
your /etc/printcap as the input filter, and restart lpd (the
instructions for Magicfilter explain this better than I can...)  Once
that's done, your printer will Print the Right Thing, whether what you
want to print is plain ASCII, PostScript, DVI, or a zillion other
formats.  MagicFilter will automatically recognize it and pipe your
file to the right program (like GhostScript) so you'll get nice
printouts.

Doug

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