I am printing postscript files to my HP DeskJet using printcap and a gs
filter. Things work as expected, but I have several minor glitches that I
can't figure out how to deal with.
When I print a "plain ascii" file I simply cat the file to the printer.
The printer defaults to "high quality" print mode, so to save ink I cat a
set of 4 characters that push the printer into "draft" mode. My problem is
that I can't figure out how to get the filter to prepend these characters
to the front of the input stream, so all my postscript files use ink like
crazy. Is there any way that I can get the characters prepended so that
postscript files will print in draft mode as well?
In addition I get an error message every time I print a postscript file.
The message:
Error: /undefinedfilename in (stcolor.ps)
Operand stack:
Execution stack:
appears at the top of the first page (alone thankfully). Is there some way
to get this error message to the null device instead of the printer?
As I said these are fairly minor problems, and I'm sure HP would be happy
if I couldn't reduce my ink usage, but my prospective use is going to go
up so I could realy use a solution.
Any ideas will be greatfully accepted.
Thanks,
Dwarf
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