Hi, Greger,
I am not very sure about this, since I don't know too much about
printers, but it seems to me that HP Laserjet 5L is a PostScript printer,
which understands PS language, so it knows how to interpret PostScript
files. (Hope I'm not wrong...)... My HP Deskjet 690C is not a
PostScript...
Have fun,
bogdan
On Fri, 21 Aug 1998, Greger Haga wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Frustrating, isn't it...;)
>
> I have a HP LaserJet 5L. Haven't used apsfilter much but once I got it
> installed I can print with:
> lpr the_file
>
> So if I have a *.ps file I just do:
> lpr the_file_name.ps
>
> When you install apsfilter you can override an earlier installation you
> did. That should not increase the number of printers in printcap I think.
>
> It is also possible to print with the program 'a2ps', (ascii to ps),
> either directly to printer or to file. It's in the aps directory, on my machine:
> /usr/local/aps/bin/a2ps.
>
> About 'gs' I know less than zero, haven't used it for printing.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> _/_/ Greger Haga, [EMAIL PROTECTED] _/_/
>
>
>
> On Thu, 21 Aug 1997, Bogdan Taru wrote:
>
> >
> > Hi all,
> > I've been trying to pring ps files for a long time now, without much
> > succes... I have a HP Deskjet 690C attached to /dev/lp1.
> >
> > I've installed apsfilter, choosing HP Deskjet 500C as printer, and my
> > '/etc/printcap' has now 5 printers :lp1...lp5. I tryied to print from
> > Ghostview, but only the plain ASCII file was coming out...
> > I tryied using gs:
> > gs -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=deskjet -sOutputFile=/dev/lp1 file.ps
> > and the result was a little bit better, meaning that I got some graphics
> > and some fonts, but everything was messed up (the characters were funny, I
> > really don't know how to explain that...)
> >
> > I also tryied using gs with lpr:
> > gs -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=deskjet -sOutputFile=\ | lpr file.ps
> > Sometimes I got 'broken pipe', sometimes I got a piece of paper in which
> > each line was full of black ink...
> >
> > Can somebody help me? I really don't understand how this works and why
> > does it have to be so complicated... and it's really a dirty job to search
> > for pdf files, and go to windows and print from there...
> > I would like to know if it is possible to print directly from GhostView,
> > and if now, what is the correct command line for gs (or lpr, or God knows
> > what else...).
> >
> > Thanks a lot for your time,
> > bogdan
> >
>
