Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 14:54:41 -0500 (EST) From: Jeff Roberts <jroberts@ashland.edu> To: "M. L. Dodson" <bdodson@beowulf.utmb.edu> Cc: FreeBSD Questions Discussion List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: FBSD: HP Desk Jet, printing PS? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970910143922.208A-100000@freebsd.ashland.edu> In-Reply-To: <199709101545.KAA01842@beowulf.utmb.edu>
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On Wed, 10 Sep 1997, M. L. Dodson wrote:
> Hmmmm.... The only problems I have ever had with apsfilter (of
> recent vintage, anyway) had to do with interfacing it to Win95
> boxes via samba. I use a Deskjet 540 at home with no difficulty
> (except for losing the last 0.25" of paper on the page). Did the
> apsfilter set the correct option to be the default printer?
Well ... I guess it looks okay. I'm not really knowledgable about this.
I ran test jobs with
lpr -Pcdeskjet-letter-[insert type here]-[insert subtype here] filename
but all it ever printed was
Unrecoverable error: rangecheck in .setdevice
Operand stack: --nostringval--
(not formatted that way,though) and then ejected the sheet.
> What version of ghostscript are you using?
> 4.0 or later is desirable for the fonts, if for no other reason.
GNU 2.whatever, Aladdin 4.03 (I think). However, it won't print anything:
ASCII, PS, you name it.
> Does the deskjet 320 emulate a cdeskjet pretty well?
Well, that was what the SETUP script advised. The DJ 320 is a color Desk
Jet. Is there a better option?
Thanks again.
Jeff
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