From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 3 05:58:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA11915 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 05:58:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hertz.ukonline.co.uk (hertz.ukonline.co.uk [195.40.112.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id FAA11903 for ; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 05:58:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from webmaster@wargame.com) Received: (qmail 12417 invoked from network); 3 Sep 1998 13:13:47 -0000 Received: from lon6-7.ukonline.co.uk (HELO wargame.com) (195.40.113.135) by hertz.ukonline.co.uk with SMTP; 3 Sep 1998 13:13:47 -0000 Message-ID: <35EE9191.4677144E@wargame.com> Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1998 13:54:41 +0100 From: "Chris R." X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cory Kempf CC: Christopher Raven , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Epson Stylus color 800 References: <35EDD3C4.12EA06AB@ukonline.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, thaks for the reply, Cory Kempf wrote: > "Christopher" == Christopher Raven writes: > > > thanks for the info. , I received the Epson Stylus Colour 800 and installed > > Ghostscript and all its associated fonts etc. from the packages collection. > > However, when I try to print from Star Office 3.x I get the print > > commands coming out on the printed page, instead of the intended > > test pages. Previous to this I have only been printing plain Ascii > > text files - no problems there. > > Step 1: eliminate StarOffice as a variable for now. Can you print a > postscript file via lpr and get proper output? There should be a file > tiger.ps in the GS distribution. > nope, I get the file printing as it was saved i.e. the file format is identified and all the data is printed out on the page as it was saved by the program. > > > You might do a general web search... I found a page that described > setting up Linux GS to be rather helpful... > Ok thanks, I'll do that. rgds Chris R. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message