Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 12:34:04 -0500 From: Howard Goldstein <hgoldste@bbs.mpcs.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: lmadrig@acnet.net Subject: postscript printcap, LJ (was Re: hi!) Message-ID: <199803311734.MAA06826@bbs.mpcs.com> In-Reply-To: <35212478.519D4D90@acnet.net>
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Leonardo Madrigal <ladrig@acnet.net> wrote:
:
: I have a Laserjet 5l Hp printer, i make my printcap and i passed the
: lptest to the printer, and works
: fine for plain text, but when i try to print from my netscape, or from
: Staroffice the printer prints more
: than 15 pages with postscript, i have already 3 input filters,and no one
: works..
Here's what I use for postscript with an LJ3. Something like this
(using ghostscript) should work for you too, although if the LJ5L has
native postscript then my technique will be horribly inefficient...
in /etc/printcap:
# Postscript printing, input is postscript, output is hplj3
#
ps:lp=/dev/lp:sd=/var/spool/lpd/ps:lf=/var/spool/lpd/ps/errs:\
:if=/usr/local/bin/psToLj:\
:mx#0:sh:sf:
in /usr/local/bin/psToLj:
#!/bin/sh
# convert postscript to laserjet3 output
/usr/local/bin/gs -sDEVICE=ljet3 -r300 -dNOPAUSE -q -sOutputFile=- -
Under this regime, in netscape you'd specify the print command as
lpr -Pps
Different constructions are possible...
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