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Date: Fri, 27 Oct 1995 07:47:26 -0400 (EDT)
From: Chris Madison <root@tippy.vnet.net>
To: Daniel Baker <dbaker@baker.err.com>
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Subject: Re: Printing with HP Deskjet
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On Wed, 25 Oct 1995, Daniel Baker wrote:

> I have a HP Deskjet 560c, and even after reading the handbooks, FAQs, and 
> getting ghostscript running, I still cna't print correctly.
> 
> Whenever I print by typing lpr filename, or doing a cat foobar.ps 
> >/dev/lpt0, I just get three lines like this:

This is what I did (which other people contributed
the bits and pieces of):

/etc/printcap
#	@(#)printcap	5.3 (Berkeley) 6/30/90


lp|ps|local line printer:\
	:lp=/dev/lpt0n:sd=/var/spool/lpd:


where /dev/lpt0n looks like:

crw-rw-r--  1 root  wheel   16,  16 Oct 27 01:00 /dev/lpt0n

and then finally have this done in one of the rcs during boot up:

/usr/local/sbin/setdj >/dev/lpt0n

where setdj is a compiled this:

#include <stdio.h>

void main()
{
	printf("\x01b\x026\x06b\x033\x047");
}

It works for an 550c anyway.  I use gs for the ps stuff.

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