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From: "Larry Dolinar" <LARRYD@bldg1.croute.com>
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Subject:       Re: lpr and file size limits
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|  From:           "Adrian T. Filipi-Martin" <atf3r@stretch.cs.virginia.edu>

|  On Sat, 24 Aug 1996, Ken Marsh wrote:
|  
|  > I just got Ghostscript working for my hp500c printer, and have run into
|  > trouble printing photographs that I have scanned. They are not very large,
|  > about 60K each, but when I print them using xv, xv cats the temporary
|  > postscript file to lpr, and lpr prints a short error message on paper and
|  > this on screen:
|  > 
|  >         lpr:  : copy file is too large
|  > 


Or add 
        :mx#0:

to the governing /etc/printcap.

hth,
larry