PostScript - Non postscript printers

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Non postscript printers

Mats Norberg

2004-08-05, 3:58 pm

I'm quite a Linux newbe so I'm appologising the following "dumb"
question. I have a
non-postscript Epson printer and want to print ps files. I've heard
about filters. Is it possible to install a "filter" so that I can print
ps files as usual with lp on my Epson printer? I have a red Hat Linux
system.

Bob Tennent

2004-08-06, 3:56 am

On Thu, 05 Aug 2004 20:35:47 +0200, Mats Norberg wrote:

> I have a
> non-postscript Epson printer and want to print ps files. I've heard
> about filters. Is it possible to install a "filter" so that I can print
> ps files as usual with lp on my Epson printer? I have a red Hat Linux
> system.

If you have a properly configured system, you can just do

$ lpr whatever.ps

and your printer will print the Postscript file whatever.ps using
ghostscript as a Postscript interpreter.

Bob T.

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