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Re: CUPS - unable to print postscript file



On Sat, 21 Sep 2002 16:39:27 -0400
Andy Saxena <andyML@nyc.rr.com> wrote:

>  I got my printer to work and I thought I was done. Guess not. I can
>  take text files and pipe them through enscript and they print just
>  fine. However
> 
>  $ lp somepsfile.ps
> 
>  gives me rows of  barcode-like lines on the printout. I read the user
>  manual and it said that CUPS understands the postscript filetype
>  directly. I assume this means that the above command should give the
>  proper output.

All I can say is that you're not alone. My non-solution has been to
print directly from the application, say, kword or abiword. I suspect it
has something to do with the ghostscript version used by cups.



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