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- From: gross@maxwell.ucsc.edu (Mike Gross)
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- Subject: ghostscript/HP Laserjet implementation
- Date: 4 Jan 1993 05:53:09 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz
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- Hello, netters!
- I'm administering a Sparc SLC running SunOS 4.1.1, and I have an HP
- Laserjet 2 with a postscript cartridge. The problem is that the postscript
- cartridge has a few annoying incompatibilities. To try to get around these,
- I would like to run the HP in its normal PCL mode, and use ghostscript to
- interpret postscript commands. It's fairly obvious how to do this on a PC,
- but making all the operations transparent to the users in a Unix environment
- has me stumped. My questions are
-
- (1) What is an appropriate /etc/printcap entry to enable the user to submit
- postscript files using lpr? Do I just replace psif with gs in the
- /etc/printcap entry?
-
- (2) Is this a stupid idea? The incompatibilities I mentioned are not
- catastrophic, and we have been living with them for some time now. Is
- there something subtle in implementing ghostscript interpretation that
- I have overlooked?
-
- Any help is greatly appreciated.
-
- Mike Gross
- Physics Board
- Univ of California GO SLUGS!!!!!
- Santa Cruz, CA 95064
- gross@lick.ucsc.edu
-