Re: Can't get ghostscript to print.
Have you tried using magicfilter (which has filters for both 9-pin and LQ
Epson printers)?
Bob
On Mon, 21 Dec 1998, Monte Copeland wrote:
>
>
> On my Debian hamm distribution I am trying to print simple Latex
> documents to my dot matrix ESCP2
> Epson ActionPrinter 5000+ . I create an ASCII text file with the proper
> latex file commands and save it
> to the filename test.tex . Then I issue the following commands:
>
> % latex test.tex
> ....
> % dvips test.dvi -o test.ps
> ....
> % gs -sDEVICE=epson -r360x180 test.ps
> Aladdin Ghostscript 3.33 (4/10/1995)
> Copyright (C) 1995 Aladdin Enterprises, Menlo Park, CA. All rights
> reserved.
> This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file COPYING for details.
> Loading NimbusRomNo9L-Regu font from
> /usr/lib/ghostscript/fonts/n021003l.pfb... 1750128 442092 1320152 24781
> 1 done.
> >>showpage, press <return> to continue<<
> GS>
>
> The above output is produced but no data seems to be piped to
> theprinter. Nothing happens. I hit return and
> and the GS> prompt appears. If I recall correctly the Aladdin web site
> states that the device "epson" will work
> with all epson dot matrix printers and the -r360x180 is used for 24 pin
> resolution. My printer prints just fine when
> it comes to issuing the lpr command and nice ASCII text is produced. But
> being a high school math teacher I need
> to be able to print math expressions. The latex output looks fine when
> I view it using xdvi or after converting it to
> postscript ( using divps ) the output looks fine as well in Ghostview.
> But trying to view a hard copy is another story.
> If this will help here is my printcap file :
>
> # /etc/printcap: printer capability database. See printcap(5).
> # You can use the filter entries df, tf, cf, gf etc. for
> # your own filters. See the printcap(5) manual page for further
> # details.
>
> lp|epson|Generic dot-matrix printer entry
> :lp=/dev/lp1
> :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp
> :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
>
>
>
> Monte Copeland
> Knoxville TN
>
> p.s. This is the second post of this message. I hope it is okay for
> me to post it again since I did not get a
> reply from the first one. If no one on this email list can help does
> anyone know of another email
> list group or newsgroup that might be able to solve this problem.
>
>
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