On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 7:30 AM, Bryan <bra...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 01:17, patrick keshishian <pkesh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I'm not sure your printer support Postscript. It supports PCL-6 and >> BR-Script 3 (whatever the hell the latter may be) >> >> Try using gs to convert your postscript files to pcl3 and feeding those to lpr. >> >> $ gs -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pcl3 -sOutputFile=/tmp/junk%d.pcl3 letter.ps >> $ lpr /tmp/junk*.pcl3 >> >> --patrick > > It supports Postscript, and even has it's own lpd running so that you > can FTP files to it to print.
You keep saying and thinking that it supports post script. It does not. Otherwise feeding it a postscript file would print the document, not the postscript text/source. I have a brother printer at home. It does not support postscript, only PCL-3. I print using lpd in base (no need for disgusting software such as CUPS). I have a HP printer at the office that _does_ support postscript and when I feed it postscript documents they print as expected. Have fun playing with filters and configurations. --patrick > > Huh... I had never actually tried the upload via FTP, but when I did > that, the file didn't print correctly either. With the way my > printcap is setup, I'm not actually doing anything to the files before > they are sent to the printer. So the Printer's filters aren't working > either? I think I may need to check the printer as well as my laptop > config...
