jcburt@gatsibm.larc.nasa.gov
Date: 02/17/93


From: jcburt@gatsibm.larc.nasa.gov ()
Subject: Re: Ghostscript printing on DJ500
Date: 17 Feb 1993 18:36:43 GMT

In article <1993Feb14.235817.23956@cbfsb.cb.att.com> wto@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (William T. O Connell) writes:
>In article <C2GnCJ.IMC@mach1.wlu.ca> kfisher3@mach1.wlu.ca (kevin fisher U) writes:
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>>
>>How can I use ghostscript to print a postscript file on my deskjet 500?
>>
>>I've tried the following to no avail:
>>
>>gs -r150 -sDEVICE=deskjet stuff.ps
>>
>>Nothing happens with that. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated...
>
>I have the following line in a shell script, where I pass it any postscript
>files that I want to print on my dj500.
>
> gs -q -sDEVICE=deskjet -sOutputFile=/dev/lp1 -r300 -dNOPAUSE $*
>
>- Bill O'Connell
>
>
Okay,
 I use the line
   gs -sDEVICE=epson -sOutputFile=|lpr -r180 stuff.ps
and I just get the postscript file printed on my epson printer...do you
think that piping it to lpr is screwing things up?

John