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Subject: Re: printing from inside Linux firefox
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On Mon, 6 Dec 2010, Dan Strick wrote:

> My printer setup is not borked.  All postscript files other than those
> produced by firefox (e.g. those produced by enscript or groff -Tps)
> work just fine.
>
> My printer may be a little strange.  I am not sure its postscript
> interpreter is precisely correct.

PostScript emulations vary in quality.

ps2ps or ps2ps2 ("it's like typing 'banana'") may produce output more 
acceptable to Brother's PS emulator.