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From: "Alex.Boisvert" <boia01@pollux.GEL.USherb.CA>
To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
Cc: James FitzGibbon <james@nexis.net>, questions@freebsd.org,
        hardware@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Poscript on an Brother HL760 ?
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> > I'd appreciate hearing from anyone who has had any luck getting postcript
> > output working on a Brother HL-760 printer.
> 
> The short answer: don't bother.
> 

Just to let you know that I set up my HP LasetJet III (with a PacificPage 
PostScript emulation cartridge) 

My /etc/printcap entry is as follow:

#
lp|local line printer|HP3 Postscript|hp3p:\
        :lp=/dev/lpt0:sd=/var/spool/output/lpd:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:sh:\
        :if=/usr/local/libexec/psif:
        
#

And the /usr/local/libexec/psif file is just as the handbook entry:

#!/bin/sh
#
#  psif - Print PostScript or plain text on a PostScript printer
#  Script version; NOT the version that comes with lprps               
#  Installed in /usr/local/libexec/psif                                
#
read first_line   
first_two_chars=`expr "$first_line" : '\(..\)'`                       
   
if [ "$first_two_chars" = "%!" ]; then  
   #
   #  PostScript job, print it.                                         
   #
   echo $first_line && cat && printf "\004" && exit 0
   exit 2                                                               
else                                                                     
   #
   #  Plain text, convert it, then print it.                             
   #
   ( echo $first_line; cat ) | /usr/local/bin/a2ps && printf "\004" && 
exit 0
   exit 2
fi     


I do not use ghostscript nor apsfilter and the printing is excellent.  As 
you mentioned, the printing is slower than PCL5 but faster than using 
ghostscript...

Alex.