Re: Setting up a postscript printer
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 08:36:24PM -0500, S.Salman Ahmed wrote:
> I think I will need a filter setup, even though I thought I wouldn't
> need one with a PS printer, since the Optra E312 only seems to
> Postscript Level 2.
>
> Using a printcap supplied by another member of this list, I get
> stair-stepped output and no EOF seems to be sent with the job. Also,
> printing from Netscape, XEmacs (using ps-print) produces a raw
> Postscript dump and they both seem to be generating Adobe PS 3.0 which
> the Optra E312 seems to be unable to handle without any filter.
I also have an Optra E312 and it correctly handles output from Netscape
(which has a header of "%!PS-Adobe-3.0" -- does this imply PS 3.0?) I
am using lprng with magicfilter (ps600-filter patched as per my earlier
message to allow printing of PCL and PJL). The filter is useful for
many other formats as well.
The magicfilter man page indicates that it adds carriage returns before
each line-feed and form-feed, as well as a form-feed and an ASCII EOT
character (Ctrl-D) at the end.
'cat filename.ps > /dev/lp0' also works fine here.
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Bob Nielsen, N7XY nielsen@oz.net
Bainbridge Island, WA http://www.oz.net/~nielsen
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