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Article #58193Re: Graphics printing with dot matrix printer?
From: Tony Cook
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 00:00
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 00:00
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Daniel Robert Franklin (drf03@wumpus.its.uow.edu.au) wrote:
: Does anyone know how to print postscript files or graphics files to a dot
: - matrix printer? I have read lots of stuff about support for
: bubble/inkjet printers and laser printers, using Ghostscript for PS
: emulation on non - PS printers, but I have never seen any reference to
: anything which will allow me to use a dot - matrix for this purpose. If it
: isn't possible, then that's sad, because printing of graphics stuff in DOS
: is trivially easy. Even my apple IIc can do it, after a fashion.
Ghostscript can print to dot-matrix printers too.
Just use the:
-sDEVICE=epson
for Epson black and white printers, or the
-sDEVICE=epsonc
switch for Epson colour printers, and set an appropriate resolution
with the -r option.
--
Tony Cook - tony@online.tmx.com.au
100237.3425@compuserve.com
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