From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 19 16:45:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from watson.ficsgrp.com (watson.ficsgrp.com [194.74.111.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB04437B805 for ; Sun, 19 Mar 2000 16:45:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from harry.woodward-clarke@s1.com) Received: from mail.au.ficsgrp.com ([194.74.111.35]) by watson.ficsgrp.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAAC82 for ; Mon, 20 Mar 2000 01:45:34 +0100 Received: from S1.com ([172.16.48.219]) by mail.au.ficsgrp.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id 650; Mon, 20 Mar 2000 11:48:14 +1100 Message-ID: <38D574BA.F88BDF32@S1.com> Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 00:45:46 +0000 From: Harry Woodward-Clarke X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.36 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chip Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: lp daemon not running References: <20000319230919.A27032@parish> <00031916342800.03263@chip.homenet> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hiya Chip, > > The printer is an Epson Stylus Color 400. > I printed a test file from the regular Text Editor > and that printed fine. I then printed this email from > KMail and the header was: > %!PS-Adobe-1.0 EPSF-3.0 > It should be 1 page but printed two pages of stuff. oh! this is (relatively) easy. Have you read through Chapter 7 of the Handbook? Specifically, section "7.6.1.3. Simulating PostScript on Non-PostScript Printers" ? This will guide you through what you need to do to make your Epson speak PostScript(tm). Well, actually, it tells you how to set up GhostScript to do the translation for you. The Handbook is in /usr/share/doc/handbook/ or is available on-line hth, H To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message