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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!ix.netcom.com!ncc-1701-d!d_burr From: d_burr@starfleet.gov (Donald Burr) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Problems printing postscript files to Epson Stylus Color Followup-To: comp.unix.misc Date: Sat, 9 Dec 1995 12:45:56 GMT Organization: Starfleet Command Lines: 24 Message-ID: <DJBKsK.11L@starfleet.gov> Reply-To: d_burr@ix.netcom.com NNTP-Posting-Host: ix-sb1-07.ix.netcom.com X-NETCOM-Date: Sat Dec 09 4:44:32 AM PST 1995 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.lang.postscript:32213 comp.unix.questions:73850 comp.unix.misc:19964 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:10120 I am having trouble printing Postscript files to my Epson Stylus Color printer. Well, not trouble really -- the files DO print, but they print oddly. Most PostScript files I print have a small amount at both top and bottom of the sheet cut off, and when I use a2ps to pretty-print text files, I get the "top and bottom of sheet is cut off" syndrome, plus a blank page is spit out between any two printed pages. This makes sorting/collating a pain and wastes paper, too. I am using Ghostscript version 2.6.2 (4/19/95), as distributed with FreeBSD 2.0.5. My printer is an Epson Stylus Color, and I am using the 'escp2' driver in Ghostscript. The command line I use is similar to this: /usr/local/bin/gs -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE \ -r360 -sDEVICE=escp2 -sOutputFile=<file containing printer output> \ <name of a postscript file> Any ideas as to what's going on? Is this a known problem, or what? Anything I can do to fix it? Please help!! Thanks! -- Donald Burr [d_burr@ix.netcom.com], PO Box 91212, Santa Barbara CA 93190-1212 TEL (805)564-1871 / FAX 564-2315 / WWW http://www.geopages.com/WallStreet/2072 PGP Public Key available by request (send e-mail) or on Public Key Servers. ** Uphold your right to privacy - Use PGP. **