Hello,
Well: It turned out to be rather easy. The reason for my failure at
the first attempt was that I tried to use it with a networked
printer. I was told that input & output filters do not work with
networked printers.
Thanks to
David Warren <warren_at_atmos.washington.edu>
Robert L. McMillin <rlm_at_syseca-us.com>
for their answers.
I now got the following settings:
/etc/printcap:
#
# HP Laserjet 5L, Zimmer 41 mit Postscript Filter
#
lpgs:\
:af=/var/adm/lplog/lpgs.acct:\
:lf=/var/adm/lplog/lpgs.err:\
:lp=/dev/lp0:\
:sh:\
:of=/usr/local/bin/gsfilter:\
:sd=/usr/spool/lpgs:
/usr/local/bin/gsfilter:
#!/bin/sh
device=ljet4
res=600
/usr/local/bin/gs -q -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=$device -r$res \
-sPAPERSIZE=a4 -sOutputFile=- -
This works great. The only problem left is, that printing to the
normal lp printer with the following entry:
lp:\
:af=/var/adm/lplog/lp.acct:\
:lf=/var/adm/lplog/lp.err:\
:lp=/dev/lp0:\
:sh:\
:if=/usr/lbin/hplaserof:\
:of=/usr/lbin/hplaserof:\
:sd=/usr/spool/lpd:
always prints in landscape mode regardless of the LPR -O option.
Any idea anyone?
Thanks -- Tom
This is my original posting:
On Wed, 22 Jan 1997, Thomas Leitner wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Did anybody manage to setup GhostScript 4.03 as a print filter under
> Digital Unix 4.0a and if so, how? I remember that a couple of month ago
> I tried that and was not successful. Now I need to do it again because
> our working environment changed a bit and I need to setup a postscript
> printer queue for a HP Laserjet 5L.
>
> While this is no problem under OS/2 (yes, really) and under Linux
> (Caldera Linux already comes preconfigured with a print filter
> based on GhostScript) I had these severe problems when I tried it
> last time.
>
> So my question: Did anybody manage to get this going?
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