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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!xpat.postech.ac.kr!news.kreonet.re.kr!usenet.seri.re.kr!news.imnet.ad.jp!news.join.ad.jp!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!gatech!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.crl.com!crl.crl.com!not-for-mail From: kaila@crl.com (Christine Maxwell) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Printing problems...any raw device? Date: 5 Feb 1996 14:56:16 -0800 Organization: CRL Network Services (415) 705-6060 [Login: guest] Lines: 26 Message-ID: <4f61ug$850@crl.crl.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: crl.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] After upgrading from 2.0R to 2.1R, i've discovered a few problems with printing certain files... specifically, escp/2 files (or indeed any epson graphics files) as produced by ghostscript. Under the Coherent operating system, the solution was to dump the file to the raw printer device as the standard device would not play nicely with certain ascii codes... Can anyone give me an idea of a similar solution for FreeBSD 2.1R? The steps I am currently trying (and failing with) are these: ghostscript -sDEVICE=escp2 -sOutputFile=foo manual-tr.ps cat foo >/dev/lpt0 this is not working... I also tried adding the suggested postscript filter to lpr, and while the filter works, it still fails to print properly. Both of the above result in gargbage and a lot of lost printer paper as I have to run the printer in polled mode, and have yet to find a way to stop the printing once it's started... Thanks in advance for any help... Christine