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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: HP Deskjet 540 Printing (lack thereof) on FBSD-2.1 SNAP
Date: 13 Nov 1995 23:15:12 +0100
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Jon  << JaMah! > wrote:

>	Are any of you printing successfully with an HP Deskjet 540?
>I can't seem to get mine working.  It always seems to hang for a long time
>with the blinking light ...

Make sure you're using an interrupt-controlled driver.

> Also wondering how to set up the Ghostscript filter for Postscript
filtering

Put it as an input filter in /etc/printcap.  Let it use standard input
and output (gs -dSAFER -dOutputFile=- -quiet -).
-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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