Date: Mon, 4 Sep 95 13:58:43 METDST From: marino.ladavac@aut.alcatel.at To: tianlin@iguana.ruralnet.net (Tianlin Wang) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HELP: does someone use HP Laserjet IV? Message-ID: <9509041158.AA09143@atuhc16.aut.alcatel.at> In-Reply-To: <199509030310.VAA02535@localhost.animal.uiuc.edu>; from "Tianlin Wang" at Sep 2, 95 9:10 pm
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> Recently I joined a company who has a HP Laserjet 4. I use dvilj4 to > produce foo.lj. However, some characters are missing in the printout. > Does someone have the same experience? I badly need help. > Any hints would be appreciated. > I have dvi2xx-0.51a9. > If someone can tell me he/she has no problem with dvilj4 and HP laserjet 4, > I would appreciate it, too. We have LaserJet 4's here, but they're equipped with PostScript support, so we, naturally, use that. We use dvips to produce PostScript from .dvi files. They work great. At home I have a LaserJet 2 compatible box and use GhostScript to produce PCL3 bitmaps which are then uploaded to printer. I use dvips to produce GhostScript from .dvi, as GhostScript is asymptotically compatible with Level 2 PostScript. This also works great, albeit much slower than if PostScript interpreter were in the printer itself. It is, however, no slower than dvi2lj approach, as the datasize which is uploaded is virtually the same (with restriction that dvi2lj might upload fonts and then use them, and be slightly faster, but more error prone.) The advantages of GhostScript use is that .dvi files, with the help of dvips, can now issue \special's which include .EPS graphics into the document. I could mail you my printcap entries and filter scripts should you be intersted in trying this. /Alby > Thanks in advance > Tianlin Wang
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