HP printer and printcap (cont.)
Thanks very much for your help. I am using magicfilter and from what I
heard in the list, people think it might be slightly better, it has worked
for my bubblejet anyway. In the last few minutes I managed to print dvi
files by using the dvihp command. However the most important thing for me
is to print ps files. Does anyone know of a utility that turns ps files to
pcl ?? It seems likely that the ljet4l-filter that comes with magicfilter
is not dealing very well with any file type apart from test files for
which it removes the staircase effect and now pcl files.
Thanks
George
On Mon, 1 Dec 1997, Pancho Horrillo wrote:
> Hi!
> I have a HP550C working under debian, just using apsfilter / lpr
> It's easy to configure, it asks everything necessary.
> note: apsfilter doesn't work with LPRng, there is a package named
> magicfilter for it, but i haven't tried it.
>
> here is my printcap:
>
> ## /etc/printcap: printer capability database. See printcap(5).
> ## You can use the filter entries df, tf, cf, gf etc. for
> ## your own filters. See /etc/filter.ps, /etc/filter.pcl and
> ## the printcap(5) manual page for further details.
> #
> #lp|Generic dot-matrix printer entry:\
> # :lp=/dev/lp1:\
> # :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
> # :df=/etc/filter.ps:\
> # :tf=/etc/filter.pcl:\
> # :af=/var/log/lp-acct:\
> # :lf=/var/log/lp-errs:\
> # :pl#66:\
> # :pw#80:\
> # :pc#150:\
> # :mx#0:\
> # :sh:
> #
> ## rlp|Remote printer entry:\
> ## :lp=:\
> ## :rm=remotehost:\
> ## :rp=remoteprinter:\
> ## :sd=/var/spool/lpd/remote:\
> ## :mx#0:\
> ## :sh:
> # LABEL apsfilter
> # apsfilter setup Sun Nov 9 13:52:17 CET 1997
> #
> # APS_BASEDIR:/usr/lib/apsfilter
> #
> #
> ascii|lp1|ljet4-a4-ascii-mono|ljet4 ascii mono:\
> :lp=/dev/lp1:\
> :sd=/var/spool/lpd/ljet4-a4-ascii-mono:\
> :lf=/var/spool/lpd/ljet4-a4-ascii-mono/log:\
> :af=/var/spool/lpd/ljet4-a4-ascii-mono/acct:\
> :if=/usr/lib/apsfilter/filter/aps-ljet4-a4-ascii-mono:\
> :mx#0:\
> :sh:
> #
> lp|lp2|ljet4-a4-auto-mono|ljet4 auto mono:\
> :lp=/dev/lp1:\
> :sd=/var/spool/lpd/ljet4-a4-auto-mono:\
> :lf=/var/spool/lpd/ljet4-a4-auto-mono/log:\
> :af=/var/spool/lpd/ljet4-a4-auto-mono/acct:\
> :if=/usr/lib/apsfilter/filter/aps-ljet4-a4-auto-mono:\
> :mx#0:\
> :sh:
> #
> raw|lp3|ljet4-a4-raw|ljet4 auto raw:\
> :lp=/dev/lp1:\
> :sd=/var/spool/lpd/ljet4-raw:\
> :lf=/var/spool/lpd/ljet4-raw/log:\
> :af=/var/spool/lpd/ljet4-raw/acct:\
> :if=/usr/lib/apsfilter/filter/aps-ljet4-a4-raw:\
> :mx#0:\
> :sh:
>
> Ok. Good Luck!
>
> note: you need ghostcript also
>
> --
> Pancho Horrillo
> pancho@jet.es
>
>
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