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- From: rypma@waterloo.hp.com (Ted Rypma)
- Subject: Re: seeking (unix) hp deskjet 500 drivers
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- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 04:54:18 GMT
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- Organization: HP Panacom Div Waterloo ON Canada
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- Eric De Mund (ead@cs.ucsb.edu) wrote:
- :
- : i've got an hp deskjet 500 (w/ 16k receive buffer) hanging off of my
- : sparc 1. i'd like to be able to print .dvi, .ps, and .pbm files. is
- : there a dvi2dj converter for the first? has anyone gotten gnu
- : ghostscript to work with the second and third?
-
- I routinely print postscript files (in color, too) to my DeskJet500C from
- an HP-UX host. For color, use device 'cdeskjet', not 'dj500c' - I've never
- gotten the latter to work right.
-
- Following is the korn shell script I use to feed ghostscript the proper
- parameters:
-
- if [ $# -eq 0 ]
- then
- gs -dQUIET -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=djet500 -r300 -sOUTPUTFILE='|lp -ddj500 -oraw'
- -
- else
- gs -dQUIET -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=djet500 -r300 -sOUTPUTFILE='|lp -ddj500 -oraw'
- $@ quit.ps
- fi
-
- Regards,
-
- Ted Rypma
- HP Panacom Division
-
- (Speaking, of course, for himself only)
-