Need help with GohstsScript & Laser Printer (Cannon LBP 4)

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3 total messages Started by Allaoua Bouabdallah Wed, 28 Oct 1992 17:44

#11

Author: Allaoua Bouabdallah
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1992 17:44

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	Sorry if am i in the wrong newsgroup.

	I have a sun3/80 and a Canon LBP4 (a non postscript laser printer 
	using the "CaPsl3" language).

	My problem is how to print a postscript file on a non
	postscript printer ? 

	Ghostscript seem to do something like that. But maybe i 
	missunderstand it's features. 
	I compiled gs whith DEVICES..= x11.dev lbp8.dev and tried 
	to do something like this :

		gs -sOUTPUTFILE=foo.lbp -sDEVICE=lbp8 foo.ps 

	I suppose that here i should  have a file named foo.lbp in the 
	format understood by the lbp8 ( am i wrong ?).
	So i tried to lp it in my lbp4 just to see. I just print garbage.

	What's the problem ? 
	LBP4 and LBP8 are very differents ?
	Gs don't work the way i think ?

	Does anyone know a way to print "pretty" (not just ascii)  things
	whith this configuration ?
	

	Thanks for any help.

-Alawa

PS : the file i tried to print is only a man page but the foo.lbp is 700k.

Re: Need help with GohstsScript & Laser Printer (Cannon LBP 4)

#17

Author: Karl Gaissmaier
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1992 10:50

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In article <ALAWA.92Oct28184401@gna.axis-design.fr>, alawa@gna.axis-design.FR (Allaoua Bouabdallah) writes:
|> 	Sorry if am i in the wrong newsgroup.
|> 
|> 	I have a sun3/80 and a Canon LBP4 (a non postscript laser printer 
|> 	using the "CaPsl3" language).
|> 
|> 	My problem is how to print a postscript file on a non
|> 	postscript printer ? 
|> 
|> 	Ghostscript seem to do something like that. But maybe i 
|> 	missunderstand it's features. 
|> 	I compiled gs whith DEVICES..= x11.dev lbp8.dev and tried 
|> 	to do something like this :
|> 
|> 		gs -sOUTPUTFILE=foo.lbp -sDEVICE=lbp8 foo.ps 
|> 
|> 	I suppose that here i should  have a file named foo.lbp in the 
|> 	format understood by the lbp8 ( am i wrong ?).
|> 	So i tried to lp it in my lbp4 just to see. I just print garbage.
|> 
|> 	What's the problem ? 
|> 	LBP4 and LBP8 are very differents ?
|> 	Gs don't work the way i think ?
|> 
|> 	Does anyone know a way to print "pretty" (not just ascii)  things
|> 	whith this configuration ?
|> 	
|> 
|> 	Thanks for any help.

please post the /etc/printcap , it's possible that you don't use raw
for your output device with post-processing like CR-->CRLF etc
and this makes garbage.

(BTW: i had the same problem with HP's and solved this with this hint,
 thanks to the net-people's)

Charly
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gs 2.5.2 on hp-730

#486

Author: Bill Broadley
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 05:06

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I am running ghostscript 2.5.2 on an HP-730 running HPUX 8.07

Using the command:
        cat $i | gs -q -sDEVICE=ljet3 -sOUTPUTFILE="|lp -dLJIII -oraw -onb" - ;

Occasionally but reliably drops characters, characters are replaced with
spaces, and if a document is printed twice it loses the same characters.

Any ideas?

--
Bill
Broadley@neurocog.lrdc.pitt.edu

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