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John B. Lockhart (lockhart@eecom.gatech.edu) wrote:
: In article <61596@mimsy.umd.edu> alex@cs.umd.edu (Alex Blakemore) writes:
: >lockhart@eecom.gatech.edu (John B. Lockhart) writes:
: >> I can take two guesses:
: >> - Ghostscript can *print*
: >> - Ghostscript can *fax* (with additional (free) software)
: >
: >Every NeXT comes with a PostScript Level II previewer called Preview
: >that *does* print and fax and zoom and do n-up, landscape or portrait.
: 
: To a DeskJet?  In color?  Through a fax modem?  Without buying software?
: NOT.  NeXT has gone out of its way to create fax software which works
: with one brand of fax modem.  Similarly, they created dot matrix printer
: support in 3.0 (shades of ghostscript!) but then didn't bother to document
: it.

It seems to be a lack of proper driver software, not a lack of PostScript.
For the DeskJet, get it off sonata.cc.purdue.edu -- they have the version that
	works with 3.0 correctly (I got it, but haven't compiled it yet).
For fax, in which I've heard the CLASS2 "AT" commandset has only RECENTLY been
	set in stone, you're going to have to wait for the modem manufacturers
	to redo their ROMs or for software makers to make icky specific
	versions that only work with your single-brand modem ANYHOW.

One option is free.  The other will likely be free or cheap when the dust
settles and someone gets around to it.  Don't forget that Release3 was rushed
out the doors because people like yourself wanted it NOW.  Hold out for 3.1 if
you can.

Don't blame the engine for the punctured tires.
-- 
Dan Berry			bugs%atlantis@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca
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