On my Debian hamm distribution I am trying to print simple Latex
documents to my dot matrix ESCP2 Epson ActionPrinter 5000+ . I create
an ASCII text file with the proper latex file commands and save it to
the filename test.tex . Then I issue the following commands:
% latex test.tex
....
% dvips test.dvi -o test.ps
....
% gs -sDEVICE=epson -r360x180 test.ps
Aladdin Ghostscript 3.33 (4/10/1995)
Copyright (C) 1995 Aladdin Enterprises, Menlo Park, CA. All rights
reserved.
This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file COPYING for details.
Loading NimbusRomNo9L-Regu font from
/usr/lib/ghostscript/fonts/n021003l.pfb... 1750128 442092 1320152 24781
1 done.
>>showpage, press <return> to continue<<
GS>
The above output is produced but no data seems to be piped to the
printer. Nothing happens. I hit return and and the GS> prompt
appears. If I recall correctly the Aladdin web site states that the
device "epson" will work with all epson dot matrix printers and the
-r360x180 is used for 24 pin resolution. My printer prints just fine
when it comes to issuing the lpr command and nice ASCII text is
produced. But being a high school math teacher I need to be able to
print math expressions. The latex output looks fine when I view it
using xdvi or after converting it to postscript the output looks fine as
well in Ghostview. But trying to view a hard copy is another story. If
this will help here is my printcap file :
# /etc/printcap: printer capability database. See printcap(5).
# You can use the filter entries df, tf, cf, gf etc. for
# your own filters. See the printcap(5) manual page for further
# details.
lp|epson|Generic dot-matrix printer entry
:lp=/dev/lp1
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp
:af=/var/log/lp-acct
:lf=/var/log/lp-errs
:pl#66
:pw#80
:pc#150
:mx#0
:sh
# rlp|Remote printer entry
# :lp=
# :rm=remotehost
# :rp=remoteprinter
# :sd=/var/spool/lpd/remote
# :mx#0
# :sh
Monte Copeland
Knoxville TN
