Hi there and Happy New Year!
Wanting to print out images (jpeg, gif and such) on my colour printer, a Canon
BubbleJet 250, I downloaded and compiled Ghostscript 5.10 that has the
following information when executing "gs -h":
GNU Ghostscript 5.10 (1998-12-17)
Copyright (C) 1997 Aladdin Enterprises, Menlo Park, CA. All rights reserved.
Usage: gs [switches] [file1.ps file2.ps ...]
Most frequently used switches: (you can use # in place of =)
-dNOPAUSE no pause after page | -q `quiet', fewer messages
-g<width>x<height> page size in pixels | -r<res> pixels/inch resolution
-sDEVICE=<devname> select device | -dBATCH exit after last file
-sOutputFile=<file> select output file: - for stdout, |command for pipe,
embed %d or %ld for page #
Input formats: PostScript PostScriptLevel1 PostScriptLevel2 PDF
Available devices:
x11 x11alpha x11cmyk x11gray2 x11mono deskjet djet500 laserjet ljetplus
ljet2p ljet3 ljet4 cdeskjet cdjcolor cdjmono cdj550 pj pjxl pjxl300
uniprint bj10e bj200 bjc600 bjc800 faxg3 faxg32d faxg4 pcxmono pcxgray
pcx16 pcx256 pcx24b pcxcmyk pbm pbmraw pgm pgmraw pgnm pgnmraw pnm pnmraw
ppm ppmraw tiffcrle tiffg3 tiffg32d tiffg4 tifflzw tiffpack tiff12nc
tiff24nc psmono psgray bit bitrgb bitcmyk pngmono pnggray png16 png256
png16m jpeg jpeggray pdfwrite pswrite epswrite pxlmono pxlcolor nullpage
Search path:
. : /usr/local/share/ghostscript/5.10 :
/usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts
For more information, see /usr/local/share/ghostscript/5.10/doc/use.txt.
Report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED]; use the form in bug-form.txt.
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I have read through all information (including use.txt), but haven't been able
to figure out how to print out images in colour, and that is what I ask for
help with now.
My printer is able to emulate a BJ200 (and similar) and Epson 850 (and such).
I am only able to use the following devices from the above list:
bj10e, bj200, bjc600 and bjc800
but they all aren't able to produce any output in colour.
Booting into Windows 3.11 and using the driver that came with the printer gives
me nice colour prints, and the manual claims that to get colour output it
must be used from Windows and not DOS (of course it has no knowledge of Linux).
As I would like to avoid double booting just to print out a few copies, I
would like to know if anyone here has had any experience with doing this?
Ideally, I would like to just pass a jpeg or gif file to a program that will
then print it out on the printer. Now I use Netscape to print such images out
to a PostScript file that I then attempt to print out with Ghostscript. If
anyone knows of something better I would love to hear about it :-)
I am on kernel 2.1.132 and have an upgraded Slackware 3.1 as base, if that
matters.
Thank you very much,
Peter
