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- From: vollath@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Ulrich Vollath)
- Subject: Re: Postcript to HP LaserJet 500-C ?
- References: <1992Jul25.223433.11428@netnews.noc.drexel.edu> <Bs6Mn0.FL@waterloo.hp.com>
- Originator: vollath@hpeick6.informatik.tu-muenchen.de
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- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 06:50:10 GMT
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- In article <Bs6Mn0.FL@waterloo.hp.com>, rypma@waterloo.hp.com (Ted Rypma) writes:
- |> sanner@track.physics.usfca.edu (David Sanner) writes:
- |> : Does anyone know where I can get a converter to go from
- |> :
- |> : PostScript -> HP LaserJet 500-C color printer ?
- |>
- |> Ghostscript 2.4 (3/25/92)
- |> Copyright (C) 1990, 1992 Aladdin Enterprises, Menlo Park, CA.
- |> All rights reserved.
- |> Distributed by Free Software Foundation, Inc.
- |> Ghostscript comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file LICENSE for details.
- |>
- |> Available devices:
- |> x11 cdeskjet deskjet djet500 djet500c laserjet ljet2p ljet3 paintjet
- |> Switches: (you can use # in place of =)
- |> -d<name>[=<token>] define name as token, or null if no token given
- |> -g<width>x<height> set width and height (`geometry') for device
- |> -I<prefix> add prefix to search path
- |> -q `quiet' mode, suppress most messages
- |> -r<res> set resolution for initial device
- |> -r<xres>x<yres> set device X and Y resolution separately
- |> -s<name>=<string> define name as string
- |> -sDEVICE=<devname> select initial device
- |> -sOUTPUTFILE=<file> select output file, embed %d for page #,
- |> |command to pipe
- |> `-' alone as a file name means read from stdin non-interactively.
- |>
- |> I use the following simple script and pipe postscript documents to it:
- |>
- |> if [ $# -eq 0 ]
- |> then
- |> gs -dQUIET -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=djet500c -sOUTPUTFILE='|lp -dtrdj -oraw' -
- |> else
- |> gs -dQUIET -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=djet500c -sOUTPUTFILE='|lp -dtrdj -oraw' \
- |> $@ quit.ps
- |> fi
- |>
- |> The fonts may need some tweaking - the font that comes built-in is called
- |> 'ugly' for good reason; large point sizes really DO look ugly. But then
- |> lots of other fonts seem to be available and could be installed I guess.
- |> I mostly do graphics or Framemaker and it seems to work OK, including
- |> color. You will need the latest ghostscript for color deskjet support.
- |>
- |> Ted Rypma
- |> HP Panacom Division
- Do you really get good color output by this?
- On my deskjet500c the colors look ugly, and black gets a color-tone.
- Therefore I allway use the pstoppm.ps program with ghostscript
- and convert to deskjet with pbmplus utilities.
- This yields the best output for me.
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- Ulrich Vollath email: vollath@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.de
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