Re: Stubborn Printer

1999-11-28 Thread Mike Werner
Todd Suess wrote: Greetings all, I just got a new printer, a Canon BJC1000 which I got for free, rest snipped This printer does not do plain text. According to http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/show_printer.cgi?recnum=139017 it works using the BJC600 or BJC4000 Ghostscript driver. --

Re: Stubborn Printer

1999-11-28 Thread Todd Suess
Ok, so that means I can only print to that printer using Ghostscript? More or less making it kinda useless as a general printer, right? Regards, Todd At 02:20 PM 11/28/1999 -0500, Mike Werner wrote: Todd Suess wrote: Greetings all, I just got a new printer, a Canon BJC1000 which I got

Re: Stubborn Printer

1999-11-28 Thread carlf
Ok, so that means I can only print to that printer using Ghostscript? More or less making it kinda useless as a general printer, right? Why useless? If your /etc/printcap is set up right, magicfilter (or whatever you use) will translate plain ASCII to Esc/P and print it just fine. -- Carl

Re: Stubborn Printer

1999-11-28 Thread Todd Suess
I use Magicfilter, I will try setting it up for the BJC600 driver and see if it will work that way. Thanks for the help! Todd At 05:41 PM 11/28/1999 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, so that means I can only print to that printer using Ghostscript? More or less making it kinda useless