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From: kelly@emu.fsl.noaa.gov (Sean Kelly)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Image Writer - Serial Port - FreeBSD
Date: 30 Oct 1995 05:03:34 GMT
Organization: Forecast Systems Laboratory
Lines: 30
Message-ID: <471mb6$ddc@peabody.colorado.edu>
References: <46h491$lpe@atlas.tncnet.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: emu.fsl.noaa.gov
In article <46h491$lpe@atlas.tncnet.com>, Bob Costa <bobc@dataworks.com> wrote:
>Are there any "printcap" profiles out there for an ImageWriter?
None that I've seen. But printcaps are meaningless without
accompanying filters anyway, and if it can print plain text, you've
already completed 80% of the job.
>Is there some special way of setting up the spooler, so that it can
>utilize some of the printers features?
What are the features?
I'd imagine the first thing you'd probably want to set up is
PostScript emulation, but a quick check of my Ghostscript installation
shows that it's not supported (unless you recognize ``ImageWriter''
somewhere in this gibberish):
x11 x11alpha x11cmyk x11mono deskjet djet500 laserjet ljetplus
ljet2p ljet3 ljet4 cdeskjet cdjcolor cdjmono cdj550 pj
pjxl pjxl300 bj10e bj200 faxg3 faxg32d faxg4 pcxmono
pcxgray pcx16 pcx256 pcx24b pbm pbmraw pgm pgmraw
ppm ppmraw bit bitrgb bitcmyk tiffcrle tiffg3 tiffg32d
tiffg4 tifflzw tiffpack
--
Sean Kelly
NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory, Boulder Colorado USA
Shave one eyebrow.
-- One of 120 ways to annoy your roommate.