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Re: [PLUG] printing postscript
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Try installing magicfilter or apsfilter.
Both are a set of print filters for printing various file formats on
specific filters.
Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
>
> I'm trying to get my hp deskjet to print properly. Experimenting with
> printtool got me text, but not postscript. Some searching on the web
> recommends the hpijs driver, which I apt-got, but still no
> ps. Fiddling with printcap and much reading of the printing howto
> hasn't changed things much.
>
> I can say "lpr /etc/lprng/printcap" and get beautiful text, but
> printing from mozilla, for example, produces stair-stepped postscript
> text:
>
> %!
> %!PS-Adobe-3.0
> %%BoundingBox: 0 0 612 792
> ...
>
> I've attached my (short) printcap file, in case someone sees something
> in it that might be of help. Both lp and lp-back show the same
> behavior. It's odd. Google leads me to believe I'm the only person in
> the world to have this problem. Well, I'm lame on one of two grounds,
> then.
>
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions
>
> (BTW, the music printer is my attempt at a simple juke box. The print
> spooler, with a proper filter script, works quite nicely as a juke
> box, albeit with a bit too much copying around of files. But it only
> took a few minutes to "write.")
>
> --
> Jeff
>
> Jeff Abrahamson <http://www.purple.com/jeff/>
>
> The Big Book of Misunderstanding, now in bookstores and on the web:
> <http://www.misunderstanding.net/buystuff.html>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Name: printcap
> printcap Type: Plain Text (text/plain)
> Encoding: quoted-printable
>
> Part 1.2Type: application/pgp-signature
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