On Sep 6, 2007, at 2:05 AM, Michael Barton wrote:
I’m printing on an inkjet printer (Epson) connected to another computer to
which I’m networked. However, this works for other printing with no
problems–including using gs to change the PS file to a PNG and then sending
the PNG to lpr.
Michael
Does the Epson OSX printer driver handle postscript (in the past they’ve required a 3rd-party PS RIP)? CUPS (lpr) itself doesn’t do any PS rendering, just hands the job to the correct printer driver (as far as I know). Or it at least adds printer-specific PS data to the job. If it does render PS for non-PS printers, it may be crude.
I just remembered that Gimp-Print, which provides postscript printing to many non-PS printers, was renamed to Gutenprint, and an installer is included in Tiger (ie it’s another “printer drivers” option in the Tiger installer, and it might still be called Gimp-print). This would allow proper PS printing if the Epson driver isn’t PS.
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Well, if I open the same PS file in preview and print it through the regular Mac print system on this printer it looks fine – centered, not truncated, the correct size, etc. Does that mean anything in this context?
Michael
On 9/6/07 8:30 AM, “William Kyngesburye” woklist@kyngchaos.com wrote:
On Sep 6, 2007, at 2:05 AM, Michael Barton wrote:
I’m printing on an inkjet printer (Epson) connected to another computer to
which I’m networked. However, this works for other printing with no
problems–including using gs to change the PS file to a PNG and then sending
the PNG to lpr.
Michael
Does the Epson OSX printer driver handle postscript (in the past they’ve required a 3rd-party PS RIP)? CUPS (lpr) itself doesn’t do any PS rendering, just hands the job to the correct printer driver (as far as I know). Or it at least adds printer-specific PS data to the job. If it does render PS for non-PS printers, it may be crude.
I just remembered that Gimp-Print, which provides postscript printing to many non-PS printers, was renamed to Gutenprint, and an installer is included in Tiger (ie it’s another “printer drivers” option in the Tiger installer, and it might still be called Gimp-print). This would allow proper PS printing if the Epson driver isn’t PS.
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Preview might know what to send to non-PS printers, or the Epson drivers might be PS now (I had one many years ago, when they were definitely not PS). Or, given the PDF-nature of much of OSX, Preview might be sending a PDF to the printer.
I haven't used ps.map before - do you have something I can try to generate a simple ps map from Spearfish? I can try lpr on our HP printers.
On Sep 6, 2007, at 10:54 AM, Michael Barton wrote:
Well, if I open the same PS file in preview and print it through the regular Mac print system on this printer it looks fine -- centered, not truncated, the correct size, etc. Does that mean anything in this context?
Michael
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