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In article <5987@sdcsvax.UCSD.Edu> hidley@odin.ucsd.edu (Greg Hidley) writes:
>
>We here at UC San Diego have been very unsuccessful at being able to 
>provide support for printing (on postscript printers) screendumps from 
>color sun displays. We use the commands:
>
>	screendump | rastfilter8to1 | rast2ps | lpr
>    OR
>	screendump | rastfilter8to1 | pssun | lpr
>

Aaargh.  Don't dither the image with rastfilter8to1 and only send 1-bit data
to the postscript printer.  Send the printer 8-bit data and let it do the
dithering.

Use psraster (anonymous ftp from titan.rice.edu: /sun-source).
However psraster has a bug in that it does not reclaim it's VM and will
run out for large images.  Apply this diff:

yourhost% diff psraster.c.orig psraster.c
194c194
<        fprintf( outfile, "{GetImageRow} image\n");
---
>        fprintf( outfile, "{restore save GetImageRow}  save 6 1 roll image\n");

screendump | psraster | lpr

Even sexier is: dumpregion | psraster | lpr

dumpregion is also available from titan.rice.edu.

Good luck,


Paul O'Neill                 pvo@oce.orst.edu
Coastal Imaging Lab
OSU--Oceanography
Corvallis, OR  97331         503-754-3251