Date: Sun, 02 Apr 1995 16:28:44 +0100 From: Gary Palmer <gary@palmer.demon.co.uk> To: "Paul F. Werkowski" <pw@snoopy.MV.COM> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: /etc/printcap for Deskjet 500 and gs Message-ID: <873.796836524@palmer.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 02 Apr 1995 10:29:18 EDT." <199504021429.KAA01040@snoopy.mv.com>
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In message <199504021429.KAA01040@snoopy.mv.com>, "Paul F. Werkowski" writes: > I just happened to get a DeskJet 540 last weekend and spent > an afternoon trying to get the thing to work. I found buried > in the ghostscript port a file called "unix-pr" along with > some install script that created a bunch of cdj-550.x print > queues and a printcap file that basically turned the Deskjet > into a postscript printer. That, along with a2ps and dvips > seems to be all that one needs to get the job done. It was > simple enough to do but it sure would be nice to have it > automated - or even a good pointer as to where to find the > needed files. I hate to say it but apsfilter is probably a better bet that gs. AFAIR it handles DVI files internally, so you can just lpr foo.dvi and have it print. (although it still dvips foo.dvi, (gs -whatever) foo.ps, at least it's hidden from you :-) ) Gary
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