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From: wwm@pmsmam.uucp (Bill Meahan)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Re: Modifying a PostScript interpreter for a bit-mapped graphic printer
Keywords: graphic printer bitmap PostScript  BJ-10e
Message-ID: <1991May20.110203.22139@pmsmam.uucp>
Date: 20 May 91 11:02:03 GMT
References: <9105171154.aa03216@art-sy.detroit.mi.us> <1053@nlbull.bull.nl>
Reply-To: wwm@pmsmam.UUCP (Bill Meahan)
Organization: Ford Motor Co. EFHD Ypsilanti Operations
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In article <1053@nlbull.bull.nl> jos@bull.nl (Jos Vos) writes:
>In article <9105171154.aa03216@art-sy.detroit.mi.us> chap@art-sy.detroit.mi.us (j chapman flack) writes:
>
>>It seems to me that it should not be impossible to take a PostScript
>>interpreter, like ghostscript, or Crispin Goswell's `postscript', or xps,
>>or some other net.postscript floating around, and modify it to produce
>>output for an inexpensive printer that can handle bitmapped graphics.
>
>It's very simple indeed.
>
>But GhostScript already includes a BJ10 driver. The only problem is that
>this is said to work only for the MS-DOS version.
         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Well, it SAYS that, but in truth, such a statement is BULLS**T!

I compiled ghostscript on my AT&T 3B1 with a very slightly hacked version of
the BJ10e driver (changed it to 180x180 DPI to work with my cheap EpsonLQ
clone) and it works like a champ!

I also swapped a 'popen('lp -dlp2')' statement for the 'fopen' of the scratch
file (with corresponding pclose for fclose) to send output directly to the
print spooler.  lp2 on my system is the 'raw' lp - your mileage may vary.
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