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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!serval.net.wsu.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!oracle.pnl.gov!osi-east2.es.net!lll-winken.llnl.gov!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!csn!qwerty.fsl.noaa.gov!woody.fsl.noaa.gov!kelly From: kelly@woody.fsl.noaa.gov (Sean Kelly) Subject: Re: PostScript for Okidata OL830 Message-ID: <1995Jan17.162446.9703@fsl.noaa.gov> Sender: news@fsl.noaa.gov (USENET News System) Organization: Forecast Systems Laboratory References: <3fai9c$5av@uuneo.neosoft.com> <3fbrgv$cpl@uuneo.neosoft.com> Date: Tue, 17 Jan 1995 16:24:46 GMT Lines: 44 In article <3fbrgv$cpl@uuneo.neosoft.com>, Thuy Mai <thuy@starbase.neosoft.com> wrote: >: I just bought a Okidata OL830 laser printer, it supports >: both HP & PostScript modes. HP is fine, but in >: I set it to PostScript, when I try to print, ON-LINE/WAITING >: display then IDLE displays. Are you actually sending real PostScript code to the printer? This behavior suggests that the printer can't process what you're sending to it. Try printing this while the printer's in PostScript mode: --- %! 100 100 moveto 300 300 lineto stroke showpage --- And tell me if you get any output. >: In the manual it suggests Non-PostScript driver is installed. I >: don't understand that, if the PostScript emulation already built in >: the printer, WHY DO I NEED A POSTSCRIPT DRIVER???? The manual is more than likely written for clueless Windows users. Ignore what it says. >: Do I have to do some magics with the "printcap" file??? Maybe. Show me your printcap file and maybe I can help you out. >I just find out that my Okidata OL830 has only one parallel >interface. The "lprps" s/w supports serial postscript printer only. >Is there any s/w work similar to "lprps", but support the parallel >interface????????? Unless you want robust page accounting and reporting of PostScript stdout to users via email, don't worry about lprps. My FreeBSD system is communicating with a PostScript laser printer with a parallel interface with no problems. --k