From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 26 14:10:07 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id OAA25507 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 26 Oct 1995 14:10:07 -0700 Received: from uuneo.neosoft.com (mailbot@uuneo.neosoft.com [206.109.1.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA25496 for ; Thu, 26 Oct 1995 14:10:00 -0700 Received: (from mailbot@localhost) by uuneo.neosoft.com (8.7.1/8.7.1) id QAA08503; Thu, 26 Oct 1995 16:09:54 -0500 (CDT) Received: from concorde.neosoft.com(198.65.161.214) by uuneo.neosoft.com via smap (V1.3) id sma008448; Thu Oct 26 16:09:25 1995 Date: Thu, 26 Oct 1995 16:09:23 -0500 (CDT) From: Daniel Baker X-Sender: dbaker@concorde-sam To: Sean Kelly cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Printing with HP Deskjet In-Reply-To: <9510262011.AA26091@emu.fsl.noaa.gov> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 26 Oct 1995, Sean Kelly wrote: > >>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Baker writes: > > Daniel> I have a HP Deskjet 560c, and even after reading the > Daniel> handbooks, FAQs, and getting ghostscript running, I still > Daniel> cna't print correctly. > > Send me your /etc/printcap and copies of any scripts to which it > refers, and I'll help. > > Daniel> Whenever I print by typing lpr filename, or doing a cat > Daniel> foobar.ps > /dev/lpt0, I just get three lines like this: > > Daniel> %!PS-Adobe-3.0 > Daniel> %%Creator: groff version 1.09 > Daniel> %%CreationDate: Thu Sep > > Well, cat'ing a PostScript file to a non-PostScript printer definitely > won't work. Let's just work on getting Ghostscript working with LPD > instead. But I have a Postscript printer.. > > -- > Sean Kelly > NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory, Boulder Colorado USA > > I wrote a song, but I can't read music so I don't know what it is. > Every once in a while I'll be listening to the radio and I say, "I > think I might have written that." -- Steven Wright > Daniel Baker -- NeoSoft Student Asst. (UseNet, FTP & CivNet Admin.) DBaker@NeoSoft.COM DBaker@Baker.err.COM ** http://www.neosoft.com/neosoft/staff/dbaker/ ** ** http://www.baker.err.com/ **