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From: garvey@johnny5.uucp (Joe Garvey)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Postscript to HPLJII under UNIX?
Summary: USE NEWSPRINT ON SUNS
Message-ID: <1991Mar21.011355.1769@johnny5.uucp>
Date: 21 Mar 91 01:13:55 GMT
References: <91079.092124FZAAC02@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be>
Organization: J5 Research -- Bothell, Wa.
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In article <91079.092124FZAAC02@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be>, FZAAC02@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be (Igodt, Paul G.) writes:
> I am not a regular reader of this news item, so, my question is perhaps a
> popular one.
> 
> What solution is one suggesting for transposing ps-files into HPLJ-code
> e.g. on a SUN-4 machine?  We know of the GO-Script package on PC, but this
> is performing very inefficiently (very slow).   Is something similar under
> UNIX somewhere present, performing well?   Our laser-printers are KYOCERA
> F-1000 (HPLJ compatibles, with an own PRESCRIBE language.  A ps-cartridge
> is not available for these printers, at least, not yet.)
> Thanks a lot.                                               --Paul Igodt--

There's been a large number of how to print on Suns recently. The answer
is get a copy of Newsprint (costs ~ $500) and replaces transcript.
It filters ascii, nroff, troff, Sun raster, etc into Postscript, or PCL.

It is a smart filter package (includes thack and mpage from the net :-)).

It lets any HP-PCL printer or Postscript printer work beautifully (remember
beauty is in the eye of the beholder). It even supports one of the Seiko
color printers... or so Sun claims.

Me? I use a LJIIID with HP's (Adobe's actually) postscript cartridge.

Postscript *ONLY* works off of a serial port. RFE #1050570 is a request
to support parallel ports too. HP-PCL works fine over serial or parallel
ports.

Sun seems to have used the Pacific Page (Phoenix Tech's) version of postscript
for page handling. You have to change the set duplex command (and I assume
the tumble command too) for the real Adobe postscript. This is trivial.

I'm quite pleased. Only other thought, is when learning to use it, don't
try to tell it which filters to use... let it figure it out... I was
thoroughly furstrated tring to get filters in the right order... soon
as I started feeding it minimal options it began to work right. I understand
transcript is just the opposite... you have to explain everything to it.

If someone maintains a FAQ for this group... how about adding this in?

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