Re: GHOSTSCRIPT -> HLLIP -> HP OfficeJet Pro 8600

Homer Wilson Smith <[email protected]> wrote:

>      I am plotting using gnuplot which puts out postscript
> which will not print on an HP86xx printer.
>
>      I am trying to get ghostscript to work with hplip to put
> out the proper format, and having  LOT of difficulty.
>
>      Here is the code that HP tells me to use ...
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> gs \
> -sDEVICE=ijs -sIjsServer=hpijs -dIjsUseOutputFD \
> -dIjsUseOutputFD \
> -sDeviceManufacturer="HP"  \
> -sDeviceModel="Office Jet Pro 8600" \
> /tmp/data.print

This is what I am using (with gs 8.71) to write to a different
type of printer that also uses the HP printer language.  It's
connected via Berkeley lpr (not CUPS, with which I have not had
much success).  YMMV.

    #!/usr/local/bin/bash
    gs -sDEVICE=pxlmono \
    '-sOutputFile=|lpr' -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER \
    /usr/local/share/ghostscript/m2835dw-setup.ps "$@"

The m2835dw-setup.ps file contains:

    % Entries from the PPD file
    % Letter size
    <</PageSize [612 792] /ImagingBBox null>> setpagedevice
    % Legal size
    % <</PageSize [612 1008] /ImagingBBox null>> setpagedevice
    % Fix vertical position
    % This moves the image up 0.125"
    <</Margins [0 -36 ] >> setpagedevice

(Note that lines beginning with % are ignored by gs because they are
PostScript comments.)

For comparison, this is what I use to send plain text files to the
same printer -- it handles them directly, but needs DOS line endings.

    #!/usr/local/bin/bash
    sed -e 's/$/^M/' "$@" | lpr

(That ^M is actually a \015 character.)