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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!news.stealth.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!enews.sgi.com!insync!uuneo.neosoft.com!news From: ed.lott@maf.nasa.gov (Ed. Lott) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: HP PCL printer drivers ? Date: 13 Sep 1996 10:22:58 GMT Organization: MMMSS Lines: 16 Message-ID: <51bcm2$8b1@uuneo.neosoft.com> References: <DxK0Eo.HLE@tigger.jvnc.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.27.166.130 Mime-Version: 1.0 Keywords: PCL Hewlett Packard Printing X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.2 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.setup:73026 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:27212 In article <DxK0Eo.HLE@tigger.jvnc.net>, vikas@newsreader.jvnc.net says... > >I was wanting to attach a HP Deskjet series printer (without postscript) >to my Unix machine. Are there any PCL printer drivers available on >the net ? Any Postscript to PCL converters ? Or is Postscript the only >language for getting 'troff' and 'latex' and other such output ? > > -vikas -------------------------------------------------------------------- Try installing ghostscript to do the postscript to hpgl conversion and aps to set up your printcap properly. Then you can: lpr tiger.ps etc..