On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 05:34:52PM +1100, Bill Bennett wrote:
> The department has a colour copier with is driven by a PC that
> operated Windows only. The PC and printer are a stand-alone
> pair---I can't send anything to the PC; if I want to print
> something I have to download it from my terminal to a floppy and
> upload it to the colour printer's PC. (Please---no comment on the
> arrangement; I *know* it's dreadful.) The printer has a
> PostScript driver.
>
> So, how do I send a PostScript file for printing?
>
> I received a couple of disparate suggestions. One, I think,
> involved renaming the file to myfile.prn. Others used a copy
> command with a mandatory colon, as I recall.
If you have a PostScript printer, do
copy filename.ps lpt1:
from a DOS prompt. (The colon might not be necessary; I forget.)
There's no need to rename the file to .prn as somebody else
suggested. (I'm assuming that your printer is hooked up to the
parallel port, by the way -- that's what lpt1: is).
If you don't have a PostScript printer, install GhostScript and
gsview[1], which will view a PostScript file and allow you to
print to any Windows printer.
You can find all this information in the mailing list archives[2]
btw :).
1. http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/doc/AFPL/get703.htm
2. http://slug.org.au/archives.shtml
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