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Re: Connecting To ISP

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Trond Eivind Glomsrød)
Fri Oct 25 18:11:15 1996

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Reply-To: teg@stud.imf.unit.no
From: teg@stud.imf.unit.no (Trond Eivind Glomsrød)
Date: 25 Oct 1996 22:11:07 +0200
In-Reply-To: Jeff Uphoff's message of Fri, 25 Oct 1996 05:44:18 -0400
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Jeff Uphoff <juphoff@tarsier.cv.nrao.edu> writes:

> "KSA" == Khalid S Al-Khater <kskhater@qatar.net.qa> writes:
> 
> KSA> Also, if you have the time. I'm having problem printing on my =
> KSA> deskjet500. I setup the printer correctly from the Control Panel
> KSA> and = tested my /dev/lp1 connection by issuing : lptest > /dev/lp1
> KSA> and it = prints OK!  but printing form X applications does not
> KSA> work. I get garbage.

Don't use the deskjet-drivers. Try the cdjet-ones.
BTW: You have upgraded to the updated ghostscript-fonts?

> If the X app's are outputting Postscript and the DJ500 doesn't have a
> Postscript cartridge (do they even make these for the DJ500?!?)

No.

> then you have to convert the Postscript to something that the DJ can
>understand.

Which is exactly what ghostscript (which is setup by Red Hat's print
tool) does.



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