OpenBSD Printing Questions
Dave Feustel <[email protected]>
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I now have practically everything I need working on OpenBSD 3.1 running KDE 2.2 but printing. I have the print spooler installed and working, and it prints ascii text properly. I have read the material on HP Laserjets and pcl at http://www.linuxprinting.org. My understanding is that printers accept 3 kinds of data: raw ascii, Postscript and PCL. Unix programs generate printer output in a variety of formats(Postscript, PDF, DVI, etc). If a file format not supported natively by the printer is to be printed properly, then the formatted data must be processed by a filter which converts the unsupported (by the printer) format to a supported format(PCL in my case). The default printer output for Unix programs generating formatted output appears to me to be Postscript. Since my HP 2100 printer has no Postscript interpreter, I need to add a filter to convert files containing Postscript-formatted data to PCL(6 if possible). I think Ghostscript may include a Postscript-to-PCL converter, but at this point my understanding of what I need to do to get my printer to properly print output from Konqueror, Ghostview, etc. gets very hazy. KDE has a print manager, but I don't think the print manager includes the conversion filters. What filter(s) do I need to add to my lpr spooler to properly print output from KDE and Konqueror as well as PDF files? Thanks, -- Dave Feustel http://www.mindspring.com/~dfeustel/recentactivities.html