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We've been using GhostScript 2.5.2 happily here since it was released,
with X11R5, GhostView 1.4, and GhostScript fonts 2.5.2. Having recently
acquired a H-P DeskJet 500 printer, it would be worthwhile using
GS to print PostScr*pt to it.  However, I've been having some trouble.

Originally, gsdj prepended gslp.ps, which seemed to cause it to print PS
as normal text. I've disabled this and added switches for 300 DPI resolution
and an output device. The -sOutputDevice switch doesn't seem to work;
output goes to files of the pattern /tmp/gs_a*.

The trouble we've been having follows this pattern: strange characters
at the leftmost character of the line; smeared-looking Courier text;
occasional vertical blocks and similar artifacts.

The line to the printer seems to be 8-bit clean; I can print characters
defined as 8-bit in the printer manual.

In unix-gcc.mak, I use:

DEVICE_DEVS=x11.dev djet500.dev (I've tried using deskjet.dev
instead of djet500.dev, swapping x11.dev and djet500.dev, all to no avail)

And here's our version of gsdj:

#!/bin/sh
# originally, this was:
# gs -q -sDEVICE=djet500 -r300 -dNOPAUSE -- gslp.ps $*
gs -sDEVICE=djet500 -r300 -sOutputDevice="./for-deskjet" -dNOPAUSE -- $*

Can anyone help?
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Justin Mason  --  <jm@maths.tcd.ie>  -or-  <jm@iona.ie> for MIME mail