Have you tried using magicfilter (which has filters for both 9-pin and LQ Epson printers)?
Bob On Mon, 21 Dec 1998, Monte Copeland wrote: > > > On my Debian hamm distribution I am trying to print simple Latex > documents to my dot matrix ESCP2 > Epson ActionPrinter 5000+ . I create an ASCII text file with the proper > latex file commands and save it > to the filename test.tex . Then I issue the following commands: > > % latex test.tex > .... > % dvips test.dvi -o test.ps > .... > % gs -sDEVICE=epson -r360x180 test.ps > Aladdin Ghostscript 3.33 (4/10/1995) > Copyright (C) 1995 Aladdin Enterprises, Menlo Park, CA. All rights > reserved. > This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file COPYING for details. > Loading NimbusRomNo9L-Regu font from > /usr/lib/ghostscript/fonts/n021003l.pfb... 1750128 442092 1320152 24781 > 1 done. > >>showpage, press <return> to continue<< > GS> > > The above output is produced but no data seems to be piped to > theprinter. Nothing happens. I hit return and > and the GS> prompt appears. If I recall correctly the Aladdin web site > states that the device "epson" will work > with all epson dot matrix printers and the -r360x180 is used for 24 pin > resolution. My printer prints just fine when > it comes to issuing the lpr command and nice ASCII text is produced. But > being a high school math teacher I need > to be able to print math expressions. The latex output looks fine when > I view it using xdvi or after converting it to > postscript ( using divps ) the output looks fine as well in Ghostview. > But trying to view a hard copy is another story. > If this will help here is my printcap file : > > # /etc/printcap: printer capability database. See printcap(5). > # You can use the filter entries df, tf, cf, gf etc. for > # your own filters. See the printcap(5) manual page for further > # details. > > lp|epson|Generic dot-matrix printer entry > :lp=/dev/lp1 > :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp > :af=/var/log/lp-acct > :lf=/var/log/lp-errs > :pl#66 > :pw#80 > :pc#150 > :mx#0 > :sh > > # rlp|Remote printer entry > # :lp= > # :rm=remotehost > # :rp=remoteprinter > # :sd=/var/spool/lpd/remote > # :mx#0 > # :sh > > > > Monte Copeland > Knoxville TN > > p.s. This is the second post of this message. I hope it is okay for > me to post it again since I did not get a > reply from the first one. If no one on this email list can help does > anyone know of another email > list group or newsgroup that might be able to solve this problem. > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > ---- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
