I once had an epson 900 hooked directly to my linux box. With that
setup, my printer knew all about postscript files and handled them as
if it were a big time postscript printer, thanks to the Redhat print
filters that take care of that. And as I recall I just used a fairly
stock printcap.
Its been quite a while since then, and the printer has been attached
to a win2k for some time now. My printing needs are quite low, but
here lately I've found myself printing quite a lot of stuff.
I have a standard sort of smbclient filter in place and printing works
fine long as I stay clear of *.ps files. But that means the printed
stuff is pretty ugly... not too big a problem, since the only consumer
of the printed stuff is me, but I wanted some nicer looking stuff. I
never really knew how to manipulate margins, etc, unless in enscript
.. not with the RH printtool. And I only know how to make nice
headers or other niceties using enscript. Like doing odd, even using
both sides and etc.
Now I can't throw these *.ps files at the smbclient filter. All I get
on the other end is lots of ruined paper. Ps-printing direct from
emacs failes horribly, as well ... its the *.ps that is reeking havoc.
Somehow it seems the filtering that used to take place, does not
happen when using the smbclient.
/etc/printcap looks like:
epson|EP:\
:sh:\
:ml=0:\
:mx=0:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/epson:\
:lp=|/usr/share/printconf/smbprint:\
:lpd_bounce=true:\
:if=/usr/share/printconf/mf_wrapper:
Is there something I can do on the linux end to get those *.ps files
to print. Fool my printer back into thinking its a big time unix
ps-printer.
Currently, to get a nice print job, I have to go to the w2k (or by vnc)
and use MS-word (Its my wifes machine...) And its only a matter of
time before I break out my vintage 45 and shoot that little B______
paper clip! Not to mention all the clumsy crud I have to stumble
around with.... For such a big powerfull word processor, it seems
incredibly awkward to use, and horribly inefficient. Especially with
that little creep leering from the sidelines.
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