Date: Sun, 04 May 2014 22:35:52 +0200 From: Peter Ulrich Kruppa <ulrich@pukruppa.de> To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: lpr / ghostscript problem: blank page at end of each print job [solved] Message-ID: <5366A4A8.1030501@pukruppa.de> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1405041329250.7760@wonkity.com> References: <5366768B.6070608@pukruppa.de> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1405041329250.7760@wonkity.com>
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On 05/04/14 21:35, Warren Block wrote: > On Sun, 4 May 2014, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I am playing around with a host based Windows printer (Brother >> HL-2135W), which seems to understand some PCL . >> >> Converting .ps or .pdf files with ghostscript and printing the result >> via lpr works so far. > > What is the full gs command? > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/printing-lpd.html#printing-lpd-filters-ps2pcl Thanks for the hint - I just typed this /usr/local/libexec/ps2pcl #!/bin/sh /usr/local/bin/gs -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -q -sPAPERSIZE=a4 -dBATCH -sDEVICE=hl1250 -s OutputFile=- - (all in one line) chmoded it to 555 and wrote into my /etc/printcap lp:\ :lp=/dev/ulpt0:\ :sh:\ :mx#0:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\ :if=/usr/local/libexec/ps2pcl:\ :lf=/var/log/lpd-errs: restarted /etc/rc.d/lpd and now no additional blank page is created anymore as before, when I used gs manually. > > >> Problem is, there always will be a blank page printed out at the end of >> a print job. >> I tried to suppress this with lpr -h option, but that wouldn't help. >> >> Does anyone have any good idea? > > Does the extra page print if the file is dumped directly to the printer? > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/printing-direct.html > > > Do plain text files print correctly? Is there an input filter in the > printcap entry for the printer, and if so, what does the filter do? No, I have to run enscript to create a ps before. Thanks and greetings Peter
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