Re: HP printer and printcap (cont.)

[Brian K Servis]

G. Kapetanios writes:
>
> 
>Thanks very much for your help. I am using  magicfilter and from what I
>heard in the list, people think it might be slightly better, it has worked
>for my bubblejet anyway. In the last few minutes I managed to print dvi
>files by using the dvihp command. However the most important thing for me
>is to print ps files. Does anyone know of a utility that turns ps files to
>pcl ?? It seems likely that the ljet4l-filter that comes with magicfilter
>is not dealing very well with any file type apart from test files for
>which it removes the staircase effect and now pcl files. 
>
>Thanks 
>George 
>

You need ghostscript.  Get the Alladin version out of non-free as it
has the most up to date drivers.  It will convert ps files to about
any printer language out there.  There is even a driver for the hp
550(cdj550).  When you installed the magicfilter package it should
have asked you if you wanted to install the gs package as well.

Good luck,
Brian
-- 
Mechanical Engineering  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Purdue University   http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis

>
>
>
>
>On Mon, 1 Dec 1997, Pancho Horrillo wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>> I have a HP550C working under debian, just using apsfilter / lpr
>> It's easy to configure, it asks everything necessary.
>> note: apsfilter doesn't work with LPRng, there is a package named
>> magicfilter for it, but i haven't tried it.
>> 


--
TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] . 
Trouble?  e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

HP printer and printcap (cont.)

[G. Kapetanios]

 
Thanks very much for your help. I am using  magicfilter and from what I
heard in the list, people think it might be slightly better, it has worked
for my bubblejet anyway. In the last few minutes I managed to print dvi
files by using the dvihp command. However the most important thing for me
is to print ps files. Does anyone know of a utility that turns ps files to
pcl ?? It seems likely that the ljet4l-filter that comes with magicfilter
is not dealing very well with any file type apart from test files for
which it removes the staircase effect and now pcl files. 

Thanks 
George 





On Mon, 1 Dec 1997, Pancho Horrillo wrote:

> Hi!
> I have a HP550C working under debian, just using apsfilter / lpr
> It's easy to configure, it asks everything necessary.
> note: apsfilter doesn't work with LPRng, there is a package named
> magicfilter for it, but i haven't tried it.
> 
> here is my printcap:
> 
> ## /etc/printcap: printer capability database. See printcap(5).
> ## You can use the filter entries df, tf, cf, gf etc. for
> ## your own filters. See /etc/filter.ps, /etc/filter.pcl and
> ## the printcap(5) manual page for further details.
> #
> #lp|Generic dot-matrix printer entry:\
> #:lp=/dev/lp1:\
> #:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
> #:df=/etc/filter.ps:\
> #:tf=/etc/filter.pcl:\
> #:af=/var/log/lp-acct:\
> #:lf=/var/log/lp-errs:\
> #:pl#66:\
> #:pw#80:\
> #:pc#150:\
> #:mx#0:\
> #:sh:
> #
> ## rlp|Remote printer entry:\
> ## :lp=:\
> ## :rm=remotehost:\
> ## :rp=remoteprinter:\
> ## :sd=/var/spool/lpd/remote:\
> ## :mx#0:\
> ## :sh:
> # LABEL apsfilter
> # apsfilter setup Sun Nov  9 13:52:17 CET 1997
> #
> # APS_BASEDIR:/usr/lib/apsfilter
> #
> #
> ascii|lp1|ljet4-a4-ascii-mono|ljet4 ascii mono:\
>   :lp=/dev/lp1:\
>   :sd=/var/spool/lpd/ljet4-a4-ascii-mono:\
>   :lf=/var/spool/lpd/ljet4-a4-ascii-mono/log:\
>   :af=/var/spool/lpd/ljet4-a4-ascii-mono/acct:\
>   :if=/usr/lib/apsfilter/filter/aps-ljet4-a4-ascii-mono:\
>   :mx#0:\
>   :sh:
> #
> lp|lp2|ljet4-a4-auto-mono|ljet4 auto mono:\
>   :lp=/dev/lp1:\
>   :sd=/var/spool/lpd/ljet4-a4-auto-mono:\
>   :lf=/var/spool/lpd/ljet4-a4-auto-mono/log:\
>   :af=/var/spool/lpd/ljet4-a4-auto-mono/acct:\
>   :if=/usr/lib/apsfilter/filter/aps-ljet4-a4-auto-mono:\
>   :mx#0:\
>   :sh:
> #
> raw|lp3|ljet4-a4-raw|ljet4 auto raw:\
>   :lp=/dev/lp1:\
>   :sd=/var/spool/lpd/ljet4-raw:\
>   :lf=/var/spool/lpd/ljet4-raw/log:\
>   :af=/var/spool/lpd/ljet4-raw/acct:\
>   :if=/usr/lib/apsfilter/filter/aps-ljet4-a4-raw:\
>   :mx#0:\
>   :sh:
> 
> Ok. Good Luck!
> 
> note: you need ghostcript also
> 
> --
> Pancho Horrillo
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> 

---
George Kapetanios
Churchill College
Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
U.K.  WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html
---



--
TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] . 
Trouble?  e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .