Subject: [netatalk] ghostscript or mac issue?
From: Brian Powell (brian@filogroup.com)
Date: Mon Jul 03 2000 - 12:59:30 EDT
Greetings all,
I recently hooked up my Personal Laserwriter NT to my linux box and serve it
to my powerbook (via netatalk) and windows machine (via smb).
Next, I attacked my Epson Stylus Color 740. I hooked it up via the parallel
port, set up ghostscript, and now serve it to my mac. I used the Apple
Color Laserwriter PPD that I modified to have ghostscript fonts, etc.
When I print from illustrator on the mac, the printer output is exceptional
compared to the normal Epson mac driver (non-postscript).
My problem is this: there is a problem with color matching and images when I
print via postscript to the linux ghostscript server which then translates
to the epson language. If I print to a postscript file, load it onto the
linux box and view it with ghostscript, it looks very poor (so, the printer
is printing exactly what it gets).
Is this a problem people have come across (color matching and strange
dithering lines through high resolution images)? If so, is it a problem
with my PPD or is it a problem endemic to ghostscript?
Right now, I can have both the parallel port hooked to the PC and the USB
hooked to the mac and when I print from the mac, merely select the route to
take; however, I'd prefer to have it all solely through the pc if possible.
Thanks,
Brian
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