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Subject: Re: Canon BJC-210
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You wrote:
> I don't have a BJC 210, so cannot tell what the driver is.
> In general, the unix handles pure text and postscript printer well,
> but not other type printers, like BJC 210.
> You may take one more step to print ASCII on your BJC 210 printer;
> that is, converting ASCII to postscript; then perform the ps printing
> procedure.
>
> I forget what is the command for doing ASCII to postscript conversion.
> It is associated with "imprint" command in psutils package if My memory
> is still correct. Would someone tell us what is the command?
>

	There 2 ASCII to PostScript converters that I am aware of.

	a2ps
	enscript

Stefanos
> If you could NOT find it, you may try to use "magicprint" we are using.
> This is more powerful tools which can print images, text, and combine
> them into a book. It is in the CCS package whcih is available at
>
> ftp://george.lbl.gov/pub/ccs/ccs-2.1.tgz
>
> Read the README.* as you needed. CCS is a simgle command installation
> package powered by ACS (AutoConfiguration System) which very easy for
> dummys. You may install it by use default which builds everything in
>
> current-dir/ccs-lib.2.1/$ARCH/{bin, lib, man, ...}
>
> When you are comfortable with it, you may change the DESTROOT, decribed
> in README.ccs:223 and ACS/readme.acs, to wherever you want to.
>
> -Jin
>
>
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