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From: andreas@klemm.gtn.com (Andreas Klemm)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Q: HP 5L: Any Problems with FreeBSD?
Date: 23 Jun 1996 07:52:19 GMT
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In article <31C96924.6DEC@ihug.co.nz>,
Jimmy <jimmyc@ihug.co.nz> writes:
> May I ask why you'd need to use ghostscript/apsfilter to print when your
> printer is a postscript laser ? Is there any advantage in doing so ?
> Netscape seems to print quite nicely when printing directly to printer
> (its in ps, and piped through lpr of course).
Well, apsfilter supports PS and non PS printer, non PS capable printers
will act like PS printers via gs.
For people having a PS printer it still does the nice task, to
print and autoconvert many popular filetypes. Look at this command
line:
lpr ascii.gz textext.dvi.Z photo.tiff cow.jpg.gz \
test.gif drawing.xfig
Apsfilter doesn't use any tmp files, it even allows you to
print compressed or gnu zipped files directly.
I think it's for you still a good functionality ?! ;-)
Andreas ///
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