Bob Nielsen wrote: > Check the filter. Since magicfilter doesn't support the bjc600, I had to > choose another printer and then edit the "sDEVICE=" line(s) in the filter > to specify the bjc600 gs driver. It works fine for my MPC2500, which > prints like a bjc4000. > > Bob
Got it.I ran magicfilterconfig and chose the bj200. Then edited as you said, everything is hunky-dory now. thanks all, Phil Dyer > > > On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, dyer wrote: > > > > > > > Rich Sahlender wrote: > > > > > > Could someone tell me how to setup my printcap for a bjc4000 printer. > > > > I'm a newbie, so please be gentle. I need to be able to print > > > > ghostscript files. > > > > > > I use a bjc600 as follows: > > > > > > In /etc/printcap : > > > > > > lp:\ > > > :lp=/dev/lp1:\ > > > :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp1:\ > > > :if=/etc/filter.bjc600:\ > > > :af=/var/log/lp-acct:\ > > > :lf=/var/log/lp-errs:\ > > > :mx#0:\ > > > :sh: > > > > > > And in /etc/filter.bjc600 : > > > > > > #!/bin/sh > > > /usr/bin/gs -q \ > > > -sDEVICE=bjc600 \ > > > -r360x360 \ > > > -sPAPERSIZE=letter \ > > > -dNOPAUSE \ > > > -dSAFER \ > > > -sOutputFile=- - > > > > > > I suspect this should also work for a 4000, assuming it's a /dev/lp1... > > > > > > Regards, > > > Rich > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > Richard A Sahlender Jr Consultant Room # > > > Lucent Technologies Bell Laboratories 2R-264 > > > 1247 South Cedar Crest Boulevard, Allentown, Pennsylvania 18103-6209 > > > VOICE: 610-712-2303 FAX: 610-712-2773 EMAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Rich,Thanks for the reply. Still having probs. It seems like it should > > work, (doesn't it always?) but I'm still getting garbage while printing gs. > > ASCII works, and even the top of the .ps file prints some legible chars. > > %!PS - Adobe-2.0 > > %%Creator: ........blah, blah > > %%Title: ......blah > > and a few more lines > > then, > > %%BeginProcSet: tex.pro > > then a bunch of garbage. > > > > Anybody got some insight? > > thanks, > > Phil Dyer > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > --- > Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen/ -- Phil Dyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________________________ "We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it-- and stay there, lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again-- and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore." Mark Twain, "Following the Equator" ______________________________________________________________ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
