On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 12:21:52PM -0500, Igor Peshansky wrote: > On Mon, 27 Feb 2006, Keith Christian wrote: > > > Igor Peshansky wrote: > > > 'lpr -P "hp officejet 6100 series"' (yes, with the double quotes) > > > should work. > > > > Thanks - almost there - The Officejet printer printed raw Postscript > > commands instead of the document. For example, the first line of > > the printout was: > > > > %!PS-Adobe-3.0 > > %%Pages: (atend) > > %%BoundingBox: 1 49 594 747 > > ...etc...etc..etc..etc... > > > > Other suggestions appreciated. > > Ah, right. lpr just sends the raw output to the printer -- you need > to add a filter of some sort. Unfortunately, I can't think of the > exact way right now -- I just know it's possible. Perhaps someone > else will chime in with a solution.
Well, the first step might be to rename the printer to something more sane and use the "Comment" field for descriptive text? ;-) I think you're asking about the device names displayed in 'gs -h'. I've only glanced at the documentation for gs, but IIRC gv does allow you to define a print command. In that regard, a variation on any of the following should work for you: # Printing PDFs (note the recurring postscript theme) export PRINTER=hp4050tn ; a2ps myfile.pdf acroread -toPostscript myfile.pdf | lpr -d hp4050tn xpdf myfile.pdf -ps | lpr pdf2ps myfile.pdf && cat myfile.ps | lpr Personally, I print directly from Acrobat after generating the PDF and examing the final output. But while you're testing things out ... # Bash alias to manage (graphically) installed printers rundll32 SHELL32.DLL,SHHelpShortcuts_RunDLL PrintersFolder # Bash alias to manage (graphically) the printer queue rundll32 PRINTUI.DLL,PrintUIEntry /o /n\hp4050tn & # See also lpq [...] Regards. -- George -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
