This forum needs a posting actually related to VMS...
I recently acquired an Epson inkjet printer when heretofore I have
always used laser printers. This printer is somewhat limited in the
document formats that it accepts as shown here:
document-format-supported: application/octet-stream, image/pwg-raster, image/urf, image/jpeg
So I grabbed a copy of ghostscript 10.03.0 and added support for the
pwgraster device to my port. It is available at
https://theberrymans.com/php_kits/ghostscript-10_03_0.zip ( I really
need to reorganize this some day...)
Now, if I want to send a postscript or pdf file to this printer, the
process is:
$ gs -sDEVICE=pwgraster -r360 -dcupsBitsPerColor=8 -dcupsColorSpace=19
-o something.ras something.ps
$
$ ipp print something.ras /device="ipp://epson/ipp/print"/document="image/pwg-raster"
$
If I want to send a compiler listing file to this printer (which doesn't
even support text/plain) I can do the following:
$ enscript --output=out.ps --lineprinter --font=Courier@9/7 --landscape --highlight-bar-gray=0.9 --highlight-bars=3 file.lis
which gives me a postscript file that I can rasterize and print.
I seem to remember a old print symbiont around somewhere that could
execute commands on a file before printing it. I think I'll try to find
and resurrect it.
Mark Berryman
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