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From: ikeyan@airlab.cs.ritsumei.ac.jp (IKEMOTO Masahiro)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: deskjet dvi driver fro FreeBSD
Date: 31 Jul 1994 11:04:31 GMT
Organization: Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto/Shiga, Japan.
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In-reply-to: jacques@helios.physics.utoronto.ca's message of 31 Jul 1994
01:01:32 JST
>>>>> "Jacques" == Jacques Legare <jacques@helios.physics.utoronto.ca> writes:
Jacques> I am looking for a dvi driver for the deskjet 500. I installed
Jacques> the tex_bin.tgz package and it has Nelson Beebe's drivers for a bunch
Jacques> of printers but no dvidsk.
Jacques> I seem to recall that Beebe had a dvidsk (or was it an option to
Jacques> dvijet?) that I used to use on DOS circa 1989. I ftp to math.utah.edu
Jacques> and found nothing relating to the deskjet.
Jacques> Does anyone know where I can find a deskjet driver.
Hello.
I'm using FreeBSD-1.1.5 and DeskJet500J (It is Japan version of
DeskJet500).
I have printed out *.dvi file with (j)dvi2(k)ps and ghostscript. I
think you can find DJ driver of ghostscript. for example..
---
Host ftp.pu-toyama.ac.jp (133.55.2.15)
Last updated 11:44 31 Jul 1994
Location:
/pub/ftpmail/ftp.mei.co.jp/tmp_mnt/public/mnt0/free/gnu/util/ghostscript
FILE rw-rw-r-- 11570 Feb 20 05:27 gdevdj5j2.tar.gz
Location: /pub/GNU/ghostscript
FILE rw-rw-r-- 11570 Jan 27 1994 gdevdj5j2.tar.gz
Host ftp.geophys.hokudai.ac.jp (133.50.22.9)
Last updated 11:25 31 Jul 1994
Location: /pub/GNU/ghostscript
FILE r--r--r-- 11570 Nov 17 1993 gdevdj5j2.tar.gz
Host ftp.csis.oita-u.ac.jp (133.37.56.112)
Last updated 09:46 31 Jul 1994
Location: /pub/fj/GNU/ghostscript
FILE rw-rw-r-- 11550 Nov 14 1993 gdevdj5j2.tar.gz
--
It is Japanese GS driver, but may be used for plain ghostscript.
If you find the drivers, you can print out dvi-file with simple
filter. For example ..
---
#! /bin/sh -f
gs -q -sDEVICE=dj505j -dNOPAUSE -sOutputFile=- -
---
dvi-file can be printed out using these tools.
% dvi2ps dvi-file | gs -q -sDEVICE=dj505j -dNOPAUSE -sOutputFile=- - | lpr
If you found pure print driver for DeskJet, please teach me :-)
Bye!
--
> IKEMOTO Masahiro, Ogawa Laboratory,
> ComputerScience, Ritsumeikan University.
> e-mail:ikeyan@airlab.cs.ritsumei.ac.jp