From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Apr 2 08:30:12 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id IAA28302 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 2 Apr 1995 08:30:12 -0700 Received: from disperse.demon.co.uk (disperse.demon.co.uk [158.152.1.77]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id IAA28292 for ; Sun, 2 Apr 1995 08:30:09 -0700 Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk by disperse.demon.co.uk id aa12165; 2 Apr 95 16:29 GMT-60:00 Received: from localhost (gary@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by palmer.demon.co.uk (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id QAA00876 ; Sun, 2 Apr 1995 16:28:46 +0100 X-Authentication-Warning: palmer.demon.co.uk: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: "Paul F. Werkowski" cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: /etc/printcap for Deskjet 500 and gs In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 02 Apr 1995 10:29:18 EDT." <199504021429.KAA01040@snoopy.mv.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <872.796836524.1@palmer.demon.co.uk> Date: Sun, 02 Apr 1995 16:28:44 +0100 Message-ID: <873.796836524@palmer.demon.co.uk> From: Gary Palmer Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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