From: Peter Hofmann (peterh@gonzales.prz.tu-berlin.de)
Date: 02/01/93 

From: peterh@gonzales.prz.tu-berlin.de (Peter Hofmann)
Subject: Re: how do I print postscript on Epson LQ-850?
Date: 1 Feb 1993 15:18:57 GMT

Jeff Mendelsohn writes:

>Hi all. How would I go about printing postscript files on my
>Epson LQ-850 printer?

You have to get ghostscript (gs) first (this is included in the SLS
distribution). The you can use a filter like that:

  gs -sDRIVER=epson -r360x180 -q -sNO_PAUSE -sOUTPUTFILE=- -

I'm not sure about the -sNO_PAUSE. This suppresses these "showpage. press
<return>" messages. It could by sNOPROMPT or so (this is all described in
the man pages).

To print files you could type this:

  above_mentioned_filter < xyz.ps > /dev/printer 

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