Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 21:53:31 -0600 From: dkelly@hiwaay.net To: Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC <softweyr@xmission.com> Cc: dkelly@hiwaay.net, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Network printing Message-ID: <199703290353.VAA12573@nexgen.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC <softweyr@xmission.com> of "Fri, 28 Mar 1997 11:44:27 MST." <199703281844.LAA10780@xmission.xmission.com>
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Wes Peters replied: > I recently said, with respect to printing on HP LaserJet printers: > % BTW, you don't need to worry about converting text to postscript for > % your HP printer; they all default to working like a standard HP printer > % until they see something that looks like a postscript job. > > Davice Kelly replied: > > All of them I've tripped upon lately insist on \r\n line termination. > > There is a simple escape sequence you can send to the HP to tell it > text lines are terminated with \n only. A simple filter in your > printcap will allow you to send this escape sequence at the begging of > a print job, and reset the printer at the end. This will restore the > default setup for any *other* systems that may be using the printer as > well. But the big catch is for me and a remote printer is the "if" and "of" filters are ignored locally so one can't trivially flip the printer's mode with a local filter. Once one has gone to the trouble to force a filter in place the filter itself is trivial. Always amazes me how bugetary things work out. We have a Sun Enterprise 1 (and several other very expensive machines) on a net at work with a bunch of 4.3G HD's. The best printer that net has is an HP LaserJet III w/o Postscript... only one font. I put Ghostscript on the Sun in the HP's print filter/interface and pushed that thru rlpr over the network to the printer. Makes it into a good enough Postscript clone for our purposes, which is mostly a2ps. Was pleased to discover a modest page of output from a2ps turned into only 40k to 50k of HP with gs-4.03. And the HP seems to push paper thru as fast as the wheels can pull it. Shame that printer doesn't have (that I know of) a page counter as we run 2k to 5k pages/week thru it. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.
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