Date: Fri, 7 Apr 1995 21:04:17 +0200 (MET DST) From: Andreas Klemm <andreas@knobel> To: -Vince- <vince@kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu> Cc: Gary Palmer <gary@palmer.demon.co.uk>, "Paul F. Werkowski" <pw@snoopy.MV.COM>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, sledge@hammer.oche.de Subject: Re: /etc/printcap for Deskjet 500 and gs Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.950407205730.3909E-100000@knobel> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.950402175049.24501a-100000@kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu>
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On Sun, 2 Apr 1995, -Vince- wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Apr 1995, Gary Palmer wrote:
>
> > In message <199504021429.KAA01040@snoopy.mv.com>, "Paul F. Werkowski" writes:
> > > I just happened to get a DeskJet 540 last weekend and spent
> > > an afternoon trying to get the thing to work. I found buried
> > > in the ghostscript port a file called "unix-pr" along with
> > > some install script that created a bunch of cdj-550.x print
> > > queues and a printcap file that basically turned the Deskjet
> > > into a postscript printer. That, along with a2ps and dvips
> > > seems to be all that one needs to get the job done. It was
> > > simple enough to do but it sure would be nice to have it
> > > automated - or even a good pointer as to where to find the
> > > needed files.
> >
> > I hate to say it but apsfilter is probably a better bet that gs. AFAIR it
To be fair to gs ... apsfilter uses gs as filter if you have a "normal"
printer. apsfilter can handle PS printers, too.
Then PRINT_PS is simply: cat - :) otherwise "gs - ..........."
> dvi is the only thing that is broken in the 4.9 delta version of
> apsfilter atleast for the deskjet is concerned...
Are you sure ? I got other infos by Thomas Bueschgens. In most
cases it doesn't work, if your dvips's config file isn't ok.
You should ask Thomas Bueschgens <sledge@hammer.oche.de> for that. He
is the kind soul, who helped me a lot, when I was short in time ... and
his "baby" is dvips .. He's a real TeXnician ! ;-) Ask him ... if
dvips is setup correctly and if permissions are ok, then there are
no problems ... (I hope! Tooooommmmmmm.... :)
Thomas, perhaps you could help concerning this topic ?
Please drop a Cc: into this mailing list, tnx.
.....
Andreas ///
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