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From: graichen@sirius.physik.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Graichen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Printing on a DeskJet from FreeBSD
Date: 7 Oct 1995 07:56:49 GMT
Organization: Freie Universitaet Berlin
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Martin Ibert (martini@heaven7.snafu.de) wrote:
: On 21 Sep 1995, Martin Butkus wrote:
: > I've tried using
: > dvilj2 myself and it produces garbage on the DeskJet. I have the impressi=
: on
: > that the driver tries to download the TeX fonts and then prints normal as=
: cii
: > text. Maybe the download fails due to the memory constrains of the DJ (~4=
: 0K
: > of mem) but that's just a guess.
: Could it be that DJ's don't like having fonts downloaded to them at all?
: I tried the same ... and failed, just like you. My solution was to
: compile the dvidjp driver from the Beebe collection (relatively painless).
: It is _ancient_, it doesn't know about kpathsearch & stuff (pity), but
: basically, it works.
: If someone has a modern, kpathsearch- and MakeTeXPK-aware driver for a
: DJ 500, let me know (by mail, please).
why not simply using dvipps and print the postscript file with gs as
interpreter - you may do all of this inside of of simple lpr filter and it
works nice - if you want to get a lpr filter for printing postscript on a dj
look in this group for an article about a deskjet 600
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