Actually, the printer is connected to the printer port on my SMC Barricade DSL/Cable gateway. It understands LPR, but it's not a platform I can install ghostscript on.
My hope was to have ghostscript do the filtering locally and just push it to the print "server" on the gateway. I think it's worth figuring out how to do this because it also means anyone on OS X could print to any (gs supported) printer on a LAN with a built-in print server. I'd be happy to write up a How-To that would help the world with this, but first I have to know "how to" 8-) When you says "use a ppd" from <x>, do you mean feed that to my OSX box? Or configure the remote print server to use it? While we're at it, I don't actually understand how to tell ghostscript to print to a remote printer at all. Can it only do so through a local lpd? Or can it do so directly? Thanks, Avram On 4/1/02 4:48 PM, "Allen Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This comes up occasionally on various lists. It's fairly straightforward > if the printer is connected to a remote unix/linux box. Just use the LPR > support in the print center and a PPD from gimp-print or cupsys to get > all the various options supported by the ghostscript driver running on > the remote box. > > It could probably be done the same way to the local box (LPR to > 127.0.0.1 and configure cupsys or some lpd server to run the right > ghostscript stuff locally). I think you'd need to install some other lpd. > > The missing piece is a generic usb/lp driver like linux has (assuming > you are using a USB printer). lpd or cupsys need a character device to > send the data to the printer. In linux land there is a generic USB lp > driver that will provide a /dev/lp0 (or 1 2 3, whatever). I haven't seen > such a beast for darwin. > > Most people who want to do this seem to do what I've done which is print > to a remote LPD server that does the ghostscript processing and spools > to the actual printer. That way I can print from my mac, my > freebsd/linux boxes and my windows game box. All using the same > gimp-print drivers and ghostscript. > > > On Monday, April 1, 2002, at 12:28 PM, Avram Dorfman wrote: > >> Hey Everyone, >> >> Has anyone got OSX printing from actual applications through >> ghostscript to >> actual printers? >> >> I have a non-postcript printer which OSX doesn't support. >> >> I've been reading ghostscript documentation until my eyes bleed, but I >> can't >> seem to get the big picture. I found the section on "setting up a >> ghostscript lpr filter", but I don't see how to tie that into the OSX >> print >> center, to lpr, or to an actual remote network printer. >> >> The /etc/printcap file says that it is only consulted in single user >> mode, >> and NetInfo is used otherwise. But the output of ghostscripts' >> lprsetup.sh >> script is an insert for a printcap file. Can this info be put in >> NetInfo? >> >> And how do I get ghostscript to print to a remote lpr printer, or get >> OSX to >> spool ghostscript's output to such a printer? >> >> I figured this would be a faq - printing to an unsupported printer via >> ghostscript - but I did search (thus my earlier question, and didn't >> find >> anything). >> >> -Avram >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Fink-users mailing list >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users >> >> > _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
