One alternative is magicfilter: apt-get install magicfilter
you can then use magicfilterconfig to set up the printer. It's pretty hard to mess up, and the resulting setup lets you send pretty much anything: text, postscript, dvi, pdf, graphics files, etc., and they are recognized and printed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew J Perrin - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 269 Hamilton Hall, CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, D-Man wrote: > On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 09:18:06AM -0500, Jorge Santos wrote: > | Hello, > | > | I'm trying to print from my Woody to an HP on a Win9x machine, I > | currently can print text (using LPRng and the smbprint script as input > | filter) but I'm clueless as to the way to print postcript files. Has > | anyone done something like this or has an idea on how it might be > | done. > > Either the printer has a PS interpreter in it (my LJIIIp has one as an > add-on card) or you need to convert the PS into its flavor of PCL. > ghostscript can convert PS to PCL (RH did it) but I don't know how to > set it up. I am using CUPS with my printer, and according to the LCD > it is getting PCL data through lp0 even though I sent PS to lpr. > > -D > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
