On Tuesday 22 July 2003 23:32, Vlad D. Markov wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 01:02:34 +0000
>
> Leonard Zettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I have a quite vanilla installation of 5.1 running.
> > Plaintext printing to my laserjet 1100 is working pretty well.
> > I have KDE set up and am impressed with the performance
> > of the Konqueror web browser.
> > BUT when I click the Konqueror print button what comes out
> > is an almost unending bunch of ACII formatting specifications.
> >
> > Obviously I have to do more to my system configuration
> > and/or install a package or two.
> > Can anybody point me to the information I need?
> >   -LenZ-
>
> It is sending postscript commands to the printer. You will need a
> ghostscript printfilter for your printer. I like apsfilter, others like
> cups, others handcraft their own.

After the usual heartburn, I managed to adapt 
/usr/share/examples/printing/ifp to do the job satisfactorily,
with -sDEVICE=ljet4d.

Thanks to all who gave me the clues I needed.
  -LenZ-

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