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Subject: Re: Network Printer : Stair Case Effect
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From: Kent Boortz <kent@erlang.ericsson.se>
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The original "lpd" can't handle network printing and input/output
filters in the same entry. This is a serious limitation in "lpd". So
you have to make one "user" entry that have the filter and one entry
for the network printing. The filter has to end in

	| /usr/bin/lpr -PRlp

to pipe the output from filtering to the network entry in your
printcap. You may have to use different queue directorys not
to confuse lpd but I'm not sure about that.

You have a PostScript printer so another option is that you don't
print directly with "lpr" but uses GNU "enscript" instead.  It has
many nice options.

I wrote my own filter (about 6 pages Perl) for a PostScript printer
that handles this and ascii to PostScript conversion, tray selection
and order, duplex printing, more than one page on the same paper
(n-up) and some other features. Unfortunately the PostScript codes
that is to be inserted is not the same for all printers but I will
write some documentation for it and put it up for download somewhere.

/kgb