Re: [netatalk-admins] Dot-matrix printer


Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Dot-matrix printer
From: Mike Holling (myke@ees.com)
Date: Tue Mar 17 1998 - 17:20:56 EST


> The printer works excellent from Linux printing text-files and so on,
> but all the prints from the Mac are sent as PS, thius generating a lot
> of pages withs PS-commands on the printer. Is there any way at all to
> get the Mac printouts on this printer? I tried Imagewriter for Appletalk
> too, but it doesn´t even see the Linux printer. Laserwriter 8 finds it.
> Help much appriciated.

Use ghostscript to turn PS into your printer's native graphics format. I
use ghostscript with my Epson FX-80 and it works great. I don't have the
URL for the ghostscript home page, but try starting at

ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/ghost

Hope this helps.

- Mike



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