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

     You are a gentle man and scholar.

     I believe I have an earlier problem which is that I can't
get ghostscript to work AT ALL in the new Centos 7 environment.

     I will get back to you once I get it to do a simple screen image
on X11.

     Homer

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On Fri, 15 Jun 2018, Perry Hutchison wrote:

> 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.)
>