[Xprint] HP PCL Printers.

[Thomas Dodd]

Phil Carinhas wrote:
> printer: xp_ps_spooldir_HOME_Xprintjobs@:64

That's the one. As mentioned by drew, it now goes to $HOME/Xprintjobs. 
Didn't know that.

> respectively that dont speak postscript. Does Xprint pass the print job
> to the lpd queue?

Yes. Xprint doesn't have a spooler, it uses the system spooler.

>   Thanks Thomas, I set up and tested all the lpd printers with lpr.
> All work that way. I'm sure i have some old versions of xprint that I
> need to upgrade.

How did you test with lpr? Where did the postscript file come form?
Try printing to the above printer, whic will create a file in 
$HOME/Xprintjobs. Start with a simple page, and work uop to more complex 
pages.

That file should be viewable with gs or any other postscript viewer. 
lprNG, just uses gs to convert the PS file to PCL for the printer, so if 
gs can view it, lpr should print it. If not post that file.

I'm not sure what the mozilla print-to-file option does. It may not use 
Xprint, but Xprintjobs does. BTW, the PDF version uses gs to do the 
conversion.

-Thomas