Printing postscript files

[Bill McEnaney]

Hi everyone,

My Sun machine used to address envelopes by printing a postscript file that I edited with emacs. To print it, I would type, say, "lpr -Php -h envelope.ps". "-Php" told the computer that it was using an HP printer. The "-h" suppressed a banner page.

After I type "lp envelope.ps" on my iMac, the machine schedules a print job, but nothing prints. What am I doing wrong? Thanks.

Bill

 

[mrbash]

'man' is your friend

Assuming that your HP printer actually supports the PostScript language (most HP laser printers only support PCL); Have you tried running 'man lp'?

'man' is neat little command that gives you on-line documentation to commonly used unix commands.

In case you have trouble here is a link to it.

A further hint: check the values of LPDEST and PRINTER.

 

[Bill McEnaney]

Thanks for the good advice, Mrbash. I'll follow the recommended link. I've been corresponding wi a Mac system administrator, a consultant who still doesn't know what's wrong. So let's hope the answer will be in the document you've linked your post to, my friend.

I'm very familiar with the "man" command. Thanks for the reminder, though.

Bill

Assuming that your HP printer actually supports the PostScript language (most HP laser printers only support PCL); Have you tried running 'man lp'?

'man' is neat little command that gives you on-line documentation to commonly used unix commands.

In case you have trouble here is a link to it.

A further hint: check the values of LPDEST and PRINTER.