can't print postscript files

Eduardo Viruena Silva mrspock at esfm.ipn.mx
Thu May 22 07:47:46 PDT 2003


On Thu, 22 May 2003 tollallenamensindbelegt at t-online.de wrote:

> Hi I,
> had configure my /etc/printcap like the example in the freebsd handbook but I'm not
> able to print postscript files I thing I  have a little misstake in the gs section in this script
> /usr/local/libexec/hl7x0 because I can print plaintext files.
>
> my printer is a brother HL-730
>
> could any one give me the answer where is the misstake that I'm not able
> to print ps file.
>
> thanks!!!
>
> best regards
>
> Michael Bohn
>
[--- snip ----]
>     #
>     exec 3>&1 1>&2
>     /usr/local/bin/gs -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=hl7x0 \

I cannot see "hl7x0" as a valid -sDEVICE option.
your printer speaks PCL4 so, why don't you configure it as
cdeskjet?



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