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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!europa.clark.net!newsxfer3.itd.umich.edu!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!maraca!wpaul From: wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu (Bill Paul) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Printing graphics on old Epson FX-80? Date: 31 May 1997 16:42:57 GMT Organization: Columbia University Center for Telecommunications Research Lines: 38 Message-ID: <5mpkeh$bob$1@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> References: <u8qmm5.v74.ln@dolphin.neosoft.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: maraca.ee.columbia.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41971 Daring to challenge the will of the almighty Leviam00se, Conrad Sabatier (conrads@neosoft.com) had the courage to say: : OK, I *should* probably buy a new printer. :-) But just wondering if : it's possible to get this old non-Postscript Epson dot-matrix printer to : do graphics. : I've got it setup for text, no problem. But all of the filters I've : explored seem to require a Postscript-compatible printer. True? : -- : Conrad Sabatier : http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads Yes, true. _But_ you can use ghostscript to translate PostScript into a format that your printer will understand, and then dump the result to /dev/lpt0. I have an old Star Micronics SG10 printer (which can be coerced into believing it's an IBM ProPrinter) that is supported by one of ghostscript's printer drivers. And I have sucessfully used it to print graphics and other postscript documents from FreeBSD using ghostscript as a filter. Ghostscript has support for both 9-pin and 24-pin dot matrix Epson printers. The bad news: I don't remember if the ghostscript binary package in the ports collection has epson support compiled in by default. The good news: it's not hard to compile gs with epson support yourself. -Bill -- ============================================================================= -Bill Paul (212) 854-6020 | System Manager, Master of Unix-Fu Work: wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu | Center for Telecommunications Research Home: wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu | Columbia University, New York City ============================================================================= "Now, that's "Open" as used in the sentence "Open your wallet", right?" =============================================================================