From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Apr 2 14:52:48 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id OAA13889 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 2 Apr 1995 14:52:48 -0700 Received: from kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu (root@kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu [130.132.128.124]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id OAA13883 for ; Sun, 2 Apr 1995 14:52:44 -0700 Date: Sun, 2 Apr 1995 17:52:04 -0400 (EDT) From: -Vince- To: Gary Palmer cc: "Paul F. Werkowski" , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: /etc/printcap for Deskjet 500 and gs In-Reply-To: <873.796836524@palmer.demon.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 > handles DVI files internally, so you can just lpr foo.dvi and have it print. > (although it still dvips foo.dvi, (gs -whatever) foo.ps, at least it's hidden > from you :-) ) > > Gary > dvi is the only thing that is broken in the 4.9 delta version of apsfilter atleast for the deskjet is concerned... Cheers, Vince UCLA Physics/Electrical Engineering vince@kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu