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From: stan@bombay.gps.caltech.edu ("Stan")
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Printing on a DeskJet from FreeBSD
Date: 19 Sep 1995 20:04:18 GMT
Organization: USGS
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Message-ID: <43n7o2$1c1@gap.cco.caltech.edu>
Reply-To: stan@bombay.gps.caltech.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: bombay.gps.caltech.edu
I have a FreeBSD 2.0.5 system running at home with an HP 550C inkjet
printer attached to it. It works fine for printing regular text, but is
there a way to get nicer output from it? [I wish I could do Postscript,
since I know how to use groff, but it's not possible with this printer.] I
looked at the man pages for dvi2xx, which said it could convert TeX dvi
files to PCL, but I couldn't get any useful output this way. I don't know
if I'm just barking up the wrong tree or what. What I tried was something
like:
# groff -Tdvi <my_input_file | dvi2lj2 > file.pcl
This created a file called file.pcl, but it didn't seem to have usable PCL
stuff in it. Am I completely off base, or just doing something wrong?
Thanks.
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