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"Espon emultion" to PCL filter
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I've a HP LaserJet Printer, accepting PS and PCL. On the other side, i've got an old application which can only print using "epson emulation". I use LPR/LPD for printing, but i have to make those two things work together. Does someone know where i could find a software filter that converts epson emulation files to PCL ones ? I thing having it behind "if=" in my printcap file would solve my problem. Thanks a lot ! |
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marc wrote:
I've a HP LaserJet Printer, accepting PS and PCL. On the other side, i've got an old application which can only print using "epson emulation". I use LPR/LPD for printing, but i have to make those two things work together. Does someone know where i could find a software filter that converts epson emulation files to PCL ones ? I thing having it behind "if=" in my printcap file would solve my problem. If the output is just text without any graphics, you could just filter out the escape sequences. If the output is just graphics, escp2topbm may allow you to convert it to a pbm, then to ppm, then to PCL. If you need a complete Epson emulation, there have been SIMMs for various HP printers to allow that. Used to be expensive, may be cheap but hard to find now. The best option would be to convert the original application to print to PostScript. -- Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota * USA |
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marc wrote:
I've a HP LaserJet Printer, accepting PS and PCL. On the other side, i've got an old application which can only print using "epson emulation". I use LPR/LPD for printing, but i have to make those two things work together. Does someone know where i could find a software filter that converts epson emulation files to PCL ones ? I thing having it behind "if=" in my printcap file would solve my problem. There are a few Epson to PostScript converters. One is at http://www.faqs.org/ftp/pub/usenet/comp.sources.misc/archive-name/volume20/epsonps/ A newer app is PPR, "a printer spooler specially designed for spooling jobs to PostScript printers" at http://ppr.trincoll.edu/ which has a "a dot matrix printer language filter", which understands Epson LX-80 and Epson FX-850 code. If you really do want PCL, Ghostscript can do that from the PS. |
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