PostScript Printer installation&configuration

[Ronald Wiemer]

> There is a Hewlett Packard Paintjet XL300 Postscript Printer already 
> installed in our department.
> How can I install it to GRASS so that I can use all the ps. and p. 
> commands.?
> 

Use the xl300 postscript option and grass's ps-programs.
If you put the dipswitches in PCL5-mode then you will have to send a 
command to switch into postscript mode. Apart from this, the xl300 
postscript expects a Control-d at the end of the postscript file. I 
have made a small script for this. It is called lpcolor:

:
# lpcolor: prints postscript on xl300-ps printer.
if [ ! -r $1 ]
then
    echo "File is not readable or does not exist"
    exit
fi
(
/usr/5bin/echo "\033%-12345X at PJL ENTER LANGUAGE = POSTSCRIPT"
cat $1
/usr/5bin/echo "\004\033%-12345X\c"
) | lpr -Pcolor_printer -h
# color_printer: name of your local networked xl300-ps

If you would like to print on large paper format, the header of 
the postscript file has to contain these statements:

%%EndProlog
%%BeginSetup
<</InputAttributes <<0<<
/PageSize[841 1190]>> >> >> setpagedevice
<</PageSize[841 1190]>> setpagedevice
%%EndSetup

841: width of paper in 1/72 of an inch (calculate this for your own 
     papersize)
1190: height of paper in 1/72 of an inch

Succes

Ronald Wiemer
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NL 3811 CV Amersfoort
The Netherlands

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