From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 20 22:17:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from en26.local.net (froggy.anchorage.ptialaska.net [208.151.119.238]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB49C14E52 for ; Sat, 20 Mar 1999 22:16:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from groggy@iname.com) Received: from en26.local.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by en26.local.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA00630 for ; Sat, 20 Mar 1999 21:19:12 -0900 (AKST) (envelope-from groggy@iname.com) Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 21:19:12 -0900 (AKST) From: Steve Howe X-Sender: abc@en26.local.net To: freebsd-questions Subject: epson fx-100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG this is a snippet of a simple print filter. it work fine for me with many printers, however: on a Epson FX-100, i always get 3 blank pages spit out at the beginning of each job with, what looks like, printer control codes, on the top line of each blank page. [ ?3!!1? ] top of page one ... [ ??))9!!?3!!1? ] top of page two ... [ ??? ??0 ?? ] top of page three ... then, on the 4th page, the PS file comes out fine. any suggestions on what to do? i tried other gs drivers like okiibm, etc, but the same thing keeps happening ... #!/bin/sh read line1 if echo $line1 | grep -q %! then /usr/local/bin/gs \ -q -sDEVICE=epson -r120x72 -dBATCH -sOutputFile=- - && exit 0 fi exit 2 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message