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From: graichen@sirius.physik.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Graichen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Printing Problems with Epson
Date: 11 Oct 1995 12:52:02 GMT
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Matthias Veit (mveit@arcway.snafu.de) wrote:
: Hello !!


: Help!! - im terrible stressed with my printer ...


: I dont know, how to acces my EpsonStylus 800+ in graphix mode.
: dvi2xx doesnt work, because the printer language is ESC/P2, it seems
: not to be compatible with PCLx (it prints curious letters - nice, but it
: dont look like the original ... )
: Help is very welcome.

set up an lpr-filter which can handle postscript and text (using ghostscript
for postscript as interpreter) and print all graphics as postscript - look
in this group for something about a deskjet 600 - there i've posted my (very
simple) filter

t

p.s.: works also nice for tex - with dvips
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