[aclug-L] Re: Printer setup

[John Reinke <jmreinke@xxxxxxxxx>]

>Which distro is this with?  Do you know what Ghostscript command line
>it's using?

Debian.  I'm glad you asked the other question. That got me to look at the
filter, which I hadn't thought of looking at before. Right now, it is set
to the laserjet-filter, in /etc/magicfilter. There isn't a filter with a
name for the LaserJet 6P, so I may need to mess around a little.

Here's what the arguments are for Ghostscript when printing a postscript file:

/usr/bin/gs -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -r300 -sDEVICE=laserjet -sOutputFile=- -

After looking at the Ghostscript manpage, I know that -r300 prints 300 dpi,
while this printer is capable of 600 dpi. So, there are probably a few
configurations I will need to do. I still don't see how to get the output
centered, though.

John

>John Reinke <jmreinke@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> I have an HP LaserJet 6P printer which works fine with hp drivers, except
>> the output is not centered on the page. Everything runs off of the top and
>> right sides of the page (at least it gets so close to the edge that the
>> printer can't print it all). Is there some configuration file that I can
>> edit to move everything down and to the left about .25 inch? There isn't an
>> option that I could find in the printcap manpage that would cover this.
>>
>> If it makes any difference, this printer is not a postscript printer...
>>
>> Still keeping a few more problems to solve myself,
>> John