From: Grant Taylor (gtaylor@jade.tufts.edu)
Date: 01/20/93 

From: gtaylor@jade.tufts.edu (Grant Taylor)
Subject: Re: How do you print TeX outputs to a DJ500?
Date: 21 Jan 1993 00:47:29 GMT

In article <fYdY1RP@quack.sac.ca.us> benjie@quack.sac.ca.us (Android) writes:

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   Hello.
   I am running Linux .99 and I would like to know how do you print TeX
   outputs to a DJ500.
   Thanks
   Benjie

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is this not in the FAQ? it should be, everyone asks this at least once a day.

so, everyone take note:

HOW TO PRINT TEX ON MOST ANYTHING:

get ghostscript!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i suppose the binaries and font package out of the sls would be fine,
but i and at least one other person have had imperfect output from sls
binaries and had to recompile. but it will work.

then do:

dvips -r1 -f1 file.dvi|gs -q -sDEVICE=dj500 -sOutputFile=/dev/lp1 -

this will print your file in reverse order (which is appropriate for a
dj)

users of other printers can get the driver name for gs with gs -h; the
sls binary ought to have all the drivers...