This comes up occasionally on various lists. It's fairly straightforward if the printer is connected to a remote unix/linux box. Just use the LPR support in the print center and a PPD from gimp-print or cupsys to get all the various options supported by the ghostscript driver running on the remote box.
It could probably be done the same way to the local box (LPR to 127.0.0.1 and configure cupsys or some lpd server to run the right ghostscript stuff locally). I think you'd need to install some other lpd. The missing piece is a generic usb/lp driver like linux has (assuming you are using a USB printer). lpd or cupsys need a character device to send the data to the printer. In linux land there is a generic USB lp driver that will provide a /dev/lp0 (or 1 2 3, whatever). I haven't seen such a beast for darwin. Most people who want to do this seem to do what I've done which is print to a remote LPD server that does the ghostscript processing and spools to the actual printer. That way I can print from my mac, my freebsd/linux boxes and my windows game box. All using the same gimp-print drivers and ghostscript. On Monday, April 1, 2002, at 12:28 PM, Avram Dorfman wrote: > Hey Everyone, > > Has anyone got OSX printing from actual applications through > ghostscript to > actual printers? > > I have a non-postcript printer which OSX doesn't support. > > I've been reading ghostscript documentation until my eyes bleed, but I > can't > seem to get the big picture. I found the section on "setting up a > ghostscript lpr filter", but I don't see how to tie that into the OSX > print > center, to lpr, or to an actual remote network printer. > > The /etc/printcap file says that it is only consulted in single user > mode, > and NetInfo is used otherwise. But the output of ghostscripts' > lprsetup.sh > script is an insert for a printcap file. Can this info be put in > NetInfo? > > And how do I get ghostscript to print to a remote lpr printer, or get > OSX to > spool ghostscript's output to such a printer? > > I figured this would be a faq - printing to an unsupported printer via > ghostscript - but I did search (thus my earlier question, and didn't > find > anything). > > -Avram > > > _______________________________________________ > Fink-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users > > _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
