Re: Print filter/tool recommendations?

["Thomas J. Hamman" <hawk3@eagnet.com>]

On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 03:26:59PM +0200, Svante Signell wrote:
> Anyone who can recommend good print filters for ordinary text?
> 
> lpr gives lousy output: pages are too long and wide, the font is too large.
> lpf or pr is not much of use either.
> 
> man -k print|grep filter gives:
> lpf (1)              - general printer filter
> magicfilter (8)      - automatic configurable printer filter
> magicfilterconfig (8) - writes interactively a printcap file.
> fixpspps (1)         - filter to fix PSPrint PostScript so PSUtils work
> vprint (1)           - print filter to break long lines

Magicfilter (configured with magicfilterconfig) works fine for me and my
HP DeskJet 672C.  Apsfilter seems okay too.

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Tom
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