Re: Issue with PCL3GUI output

On Wed, 26 Jul 2017, Paul Goyette wrote:

<big snip>

> Quite frankly, I've already spent much more time on this that I ever
> should have needed, and I've dived in deeper than I ever intended.
>
> I am simply giving up completely on ghostscript, in the same manner
> as I've already given up on cups.  Both are way too complicated and
> require too much understanding to accomplish my desired end-goal of
> being able to print from my NetBSD system.  I will simply continue
> to maintain the Windows lap-top for my printing needs, transferring
> files as needed.
>
> All the efforts and suggestions provided in this thread were very
> much appreciated, but simply insufficient to convince me that there
> is an appropriate solution.

Well, after all that, I got some help on another list (unrelated to
ghostscript, but oriented towards my own NetBSD operating system.
And, after a few iterations, I've actually got ink hitting the paper
(and in the correct locations)!

FWIW, here's what I ended up with for the test script (minor mods
were made to turn it into an lpr filter):

#! /bin/sh

#echo "This is a test." | \
#enscript -Bh -q -p- | \
/usr/pkg/bin/gs -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -r300 \
 	-sDEVICE=pcl3 -sSubdevice=unspec \
 	-dSendNULs=11000 -dOnlyCRD -sPJLJob="test" \
 	-sPJLLanguage=PCL3GUI -sPAPERSIZE=letter \
 	-sColorModel=CMYK -dBlackLevels=4 -dCMYLevels=4 \
 	-sOutputFile=- -

I don't know what was wrong with the original, but I suspect that
the printer was unhappy with the -sPrintQuality=presentation option
(or possibly-but-less-likely, unhappy with -sMedium=plain).

If anyone wants to add this to the "reports.txt" file, feel free;
you have my permission.


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