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Date: Sat, 15 Mar 1997 23:49:13 +0000 ()
From: Carey Nairn <cpn@ccd.tas.gov.au>
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To answer my own question and to help anyone else in the same boat, I
managed to solve this one by installing apsfilter from the ports.  This
took care of evrything rather well.

cheers,
Carey

On Sat, 15 Mar 1997, Carey Nairn wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I have followed the printing section of the handbook and still can't get
> my 690C to do more than throw out a couple of blank pages.
> 
> I used the filter in the handbook and the ghostscript-3.53 package.
> 
> My system is 2.1.6R
> 
> If someone has filters/printcap entries I could look at I would be very
> happy.
> 
> cheers,
> Carey Nairn
> 
> 
>