Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 18:43:11 -0700 From: Gary Schenk <gwschenk@socal.rr.com> To: Malcolm Kay <Malcolm.Kay@internode.on.net>, Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie lpd printing Message-ID: <200304231843.11719.gwschenk@socal.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <200304231725.59212.Malcolm.Kay@internode.on.net> References: <200304102145.25225.gwschenk@socal.rr.com> <200304222140.12401.gwschenk@socal.rr.com> <200304231725.59212.Malcolm.Kay@internode.on.net>
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On Wednesday 23 April 2003 12:55 am, Malcolm Kay wrote: > Until now I thought you had solved your printer problem. Some more > information would probably help: > Which Epson printer do you have -- is it an inkjet? -- which particular > model. That Epson was an old junker that was just for experimenting. The quality was very poor, and I've replaced it with a HP 6122. > Do you have ghostscript installed? Aladdin or Gnu? Gnu. > > With this information we can possibly fix the filter script for you. > > A relatively simple filter switching between plain text and postscript > should be fairly simple to implement if your printer is supported by > ghostscript. > That was the impression I got from my research. The script befuddles me, as I got it from two very good sources. I realize that I need to learn shell programming, and I am working on that, but I have a real need to print now. > More complex filters are sometimes employed to directly manage output > in other formats -- particularly picture formats -- or to select printer > options such as resolution, speed vs quality but I find this overkill. > Yes, I agree. Where can I find the simple filter? > malcolm Thanks for your reply. Gary Schenk
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