Re: dvips TeX printer driver

[brownh@hartford-hwp.com (Haines Brown)]

> On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 03:37:01PM -0500, Haines Brown wrote:
> > I went on in more detail in another reply. In short, I do have dvips
> > installed, and it is not working. When I run dvips on a dvi file, it
> > generate what I can only assume is a proper .ps file, but the output
> > never gets to the printer. I can view and manipulate .ps files with
> > ghostscript, but can't get ghostscript to print them.
> 
> If you have a postscript printer you simply run:
> lpr name_of_file.ps

Well, that was it! lpr filname.ps works fine.

It seems that in my old RedHat installation, dvips did the printing as
well, but not under debian. Also, my recollection is that the LaTeX
manuals presume dvips will do both operations at once.

Haines Brown