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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!agate!news.ucsc.edu!ese.UCSC.EDU!not-for-mail From: tgs@cats.ucsc.edu (Thomas Gunnar Sparks) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: lpd and ghostscript Date: 22 Jan 1997 22:22:11 GMT Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz Lines: 18 Message-ID: <5c63uj$em4@darkstar.ucsc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: ese.ucsc.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 BETA-950824-16colors PL0] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.questions:94464 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34380 I've got a canon BJ-200 and supposedly ghostscript supports my printer, but I can't seem to get it to work with lpd or my printer at all.. Every time I try to get it working it freezes the printer or something, and I have to reboot my system to get the printer to even work again... The printer will take plain old ascii text, but not output from ghostscript.. I read through the FAQ pages on how to setup lpd to use gs, but it was fairly unclear on a few points... Does anyone have the filter script that works with a bj200 and ghostscript? I'd be happy with just having GS be able to print things to my printer... I'm using FreeBSD 2.1.6.1 if that matters... Aladdin GS 3.53 is the version of GS I'm using.. please e-mail if possible.. tgs@cats.ucsc.edu