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From: hidley@odin.ucsd.edu (Greg Hidley)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Printing color sun screen dumps on a postscript printer
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Date: 24 Feb 89 23:45:16 GMT
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We here at UC San Diego have been very unsuccessful at being able to 
provide support for printing (on postscript printers) screendumps from 
color sun displays. We use the commands:

	screendump | rastfilter8to1 | rast2ps | lpr
    OR
	screendump | rastfilter8to1 | pssun | lpr

On all non-386i suns we experience various problems with the image.
It prints but has areas of the screen which are severly corrupted 
on the printout as if there is some form of a synching problem which
corrupts the generated raster file.

On the 386i both pssun and rast2ps tell us these are not raster image
files or cannot be read as such (but screendump > foo; screenload < foo
works fine!, indicating the dumping is fine, but not the conversion).
This may be an architecture specific problem as it does not occur on
non-386 based suns.

Have any of you found a way to succesfully dump and print color images
on a (non-color) Postscript printer. We have had no luck with our
stable of sun 2's, 3's, or 4's (and variety of different color 
interfaces). Any advice will be appreciated.

thanks
greg



	Greg Hidley	Division of Engineering, R-003
			University of California, San Diego
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