Re: Printing to a postscript laser printer

Article View: bc.unix

Article #654

#654

From: Brian Hampson
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 00:00

20 lines
1294 bytes

Jason Baker (jbaker@themis.ag.gov.bc.ca) wrote:

: When we set up PS here, on Data General UNIX, we had to set up different
: queues to handle it.  You may be in the same situation, or you might be
: able to specify a content-type, but I haven't looked into that very much,
: since we were just told "Nope, DG can't do that". :)

In /usr/lib/lp/postscript, is a filter called postprint.

cat <straight-file> | /usr/lib/lp/postscript/postprint | lp -d <postscript
printer>

-- 
"There are Three kinds of death in this world - Brain death, Heart death, and
 being off the Net."

   Brian P. Hampson                  ASL Analytical Service Laboratories Ltd
   System Administrator,             Vancouver, BC (604)253-4188
   ----------------- http://www.asl-labs.bc.ca/ ----------------------------

Technical Details

Message-ID: <D19961119T37559X4433@grizzly.asl-labs.bc.ca>

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!unknown!not-for-mail

References: <9611181012041183@geocities.com> <1996Nov18.173427.8703@venus.gov.bc.ca>

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: 114424,78b46a63d8571b21
X-Google-Attributes: gid114424,public
From: brian@asl-labs.bc.ca (Brian Hampson)
Subject: Re: Printing to a postscript laser printer
Date: 1996/11/19
Message-ID: <D19961119T37559X4433@grizzly.asl-labs.bc.ca>
X-Deja-AN: 197470455
references: <9611181012041183@geocities.com> <1996Nov18.173427.8703@venus.gov.bc.ca>
organization: ASL Analytical Service Laboratories
newsgroups: bc.unix

Reply to Parent Message