> The problem I usually ran into was:
> dvips -D XXX file.dvi

Just don't do this. Define a printer with dpi and mode and then
  dvips -P... file.dvi -o
(only add -o if you don't want to print).

Or, if you really want "ad hoc" invocations without setting up a
config.PRINTER file, then say
  dvips -D ... -mfmode ... file.dvi

Thomas

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