Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!ucbvax!EULER.JSC.NASA.GOV!johnson From: johnson@EULER.JSC.NASA.GOV (Stan Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi Subject: Re: Berkeley Print Spooling and PostScript Printers Message-ID: <9106211644.AA21058@euler.jsc.nasa.gov> Date: 21 Jun 91 16:44:56 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 34 Brent Bates writes... >From: "Brent L. Bates ViGYAN AAD/TAB" > We use lpr all the time with out any problems. If you have a PostScript >file, you don't need any filters. Below is the printcap entry for our >HP laser printer and our Tektronix 4693D printer both are connected to >parallel ports, one on a 210VGX and the other on a 320VGX. > ...... > We also have Transcript for text files and various utilities for >PostScript image files. > > Brent L. Bates Phone:(804) 864-2854 > NASA-Langley Research Center FAX:(804) 864-6792 > M.S. 361 > Hampton, Virginia 23665-5225 > E-mail: blbates@aero36.larc.nasa.gov or blbates@aero8.larc.nasa.gov I probably should have been more specific. We do need a filter for the PostScript printer so that we can print regular text and so that the banner page output by lpr is handled correctly. I may be missing something obvious, but it seems to me that the appropriate filters should have been included with our Documenter's Workbench software to allow PostScript printers to be used equally well with either AT&T or BSD Print Spooling. Are there any solutions other than buying Transcript or some other package? (i.e. something cheap that will fit into my end-of-the-fiscal-year zero-dollar budget)? Again, thanks for any and all suggestions.. -Stan Johnson NASA / Johnson Space Center Houston, TX 77058 (713) 483-4692 johnson@euler.jsc.nasa.gov