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- From: andrewc@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew J. Cosgriff !)
- Subject: Re: HELP!: Ghostscript doesn't print on epson device!?
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- Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
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- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 00:31:33 GMT
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- hume@uni-paderborn.de (Hubertus Meier) writes:
-
- >Hi Linuxers!
-
- >After compiling ghostscript 252 i wanted to print out some ps-files on my printe
- >r.
- >Ghostscript was compiled with two devices: X11 and EPSON.
- >When I try to print my ps-file with gs I become no message that it fails.
- >But there is also no output.
- >I also tried gslp which came with gs252. But it also failed.
-
- From what I could work out, gslp prints out the actual postscript code, or
- something like that...
-
- To print out something you just do
- gs -sDEVICE=epson -sOutputFile=/dev/lp1 file.ps
- (where /dev/lp1 is the printer)
-
- happy gs'ing !
-
- Enjoy !
-
- Cos !
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