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From: mikeo@sae.UUCP (Michael Ovington)
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Subject: printing on HP Laserjet
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Date: 30 Aug 90 15:04:58 GMT
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>Can anyone please point me in the directions of some
>source code that would show me how to print the contents
>of an X window to an HP Laserjet printer. I do have access
>to uunet, if there is anything on there.

I have had excellent results dumping our monochrome screens to an
HP Laserjet with:

   xwd {-root} | xwdtopbm | pbmtolj -r 150 | lpr

xwdtopbm and pbmtolj are two utilities in the contrib/clients/pbmplus
package of the X11R4 distribution. It has a wonderful set of utilities
for manipulating and converting many different bitmap/pixmap formats.
I haven't tried dumping any of our color screens, but you should be
able to get it to work with some combination of the pbm utilties.
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