Salut Franck, you are probably looking for some kind of printer filter. Debian offers you 2 different packages for this task: apsfilter and magicfilter (both in the 'text' section). They not only print ascii and ps but many other formats, too.
I recently switched from apsfilter to magicfilter, because the latter is more elegant and slim plus I also switched from lpr to lprng. apsfilter comes with a nice installation script but is somewhat unflexible and as far as I can see no longer actively maintained (i.e. the upstream source, not the Debian package). magicfilter is a little harder to get to work (at least for me it was) although there is a program called magicfilterconfig. But it is *really* easy to write your own filter if none of the existing ones works for your printer. The core question for both packages, however, is whether (better: to what extent) ghostscript supports your printer. With 'gs -h' you get a list of available devices. There are several starting with eps and st, I don't know which one is compatible to the Epson printer you have. For further information on ghostscript have a look at: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/ There's also GhostScript 5.01, but it's not yet debianised. Maybe you also wnat to visit this page dedicated to Epson Stylus Color printers: http://www.fammed.sunysb.edu/holve/epson.html Regards, Andree -- | Institute of Geophysics phone: +49 40 4123 4389 ANDREE LEIDENFROST | University of Hamburg fax: +49 40 4123 5441 Geophysicist | Bundesstrasse 55 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | D-20146 Hamburg www: www.app-geoph.dkrz.de -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
