Date: Thu, 26 Oct 1995 19:49:01 -0500 (CDT) From: Daniel Baker <dbaker@Baker.Err.COM> To: Sean Kelly <kelly@fsl.noaa.gov> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Printing with HP Deskjet Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951026194835.225C-100000@concorde-sam> In-Reply-To: <9510262011.AA26091@emu.fsl.noaa.gov>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Thu, 26 Oct 1995, Sean Kelly wrote:
> >>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Baker <dbaker@baker.err.com> 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.
# @(#)printcap 5.3 (Berkeley) 6/30/90
#lp|local line printer:\
# :lp=/dev/lp:sd=/var/spool/output/lpd:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:
deskjet:ps:PS:S:lp:HP DeskJet Printer
:sh:sd=/var/spool/lpd/deskjet:
:lp=/dev/lpt0:
:if=/usr/local/libexec/hpif:
--EOF--
#!/bin/sh
#
# ifhp - Print Ghostscript-simulated PostScript on a DesJet 500
# Installed in /usr/local/libexec/hpif
#
# Treat LF as CR+LF:
#
printf "\033&k2G" || exit 2
#
# Read first two characters of the file
#
read first_line
first_two_chars=`expr "$first_line" : '\(..\)'`
if [ "$first_two_chars" = "%!" ]; then
#
# It's PostScript; use Ghostscript to scan-convert and print it
#
/usr/local/bin/gs -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=djet500
-sOutputFile=- - \
&& exit 0
else
#
# Plain text or HP/PCL, so just print it directly; print a form
# at the end to eject the last page.
#
echo $first_line && cat && printf "\f" && exit 2
fi
exit 2
>
> 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.
okay.....
>
> --
> 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/ **
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.BSF.3.91.951026194835.225C-100000>