[lug] printing pdfs to postscript printers

Daniel Webb lists at danielwebb.us
Thu Jul 22 22:32:35 MDT 2004


On Thu, 22 Jul 2004, Elyse M. Grasso wrote:

> I suspect even most single page images in these files will choke my printer:
> they've got images of power point slides (more or less) on them. And I wasn't
> joking when I described the printer as an antique: it's about 12 years old, I
> think, so we're talking about tiny memory by modern standards.
>
> Ah well, time for a new printer, once I scrape up some cash. Maybe with color.

I'm using a Laserjet 3P, and before I added some memory that I was just
lucky enough to have lying around, I couldn't get it to work with Linux.
>From what I've gathered from Google searching, there are ways to do it,
and Windows has some setting to scratch by, but I never figured out how
for Linux.  I think 2 MB is about the bare minimum for a postscript
printer with Linux.

Daniel




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