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2003/7/8 [Computer/HW/Printer] UID:28960 Activity:high
7/8     What's the best way to print tiff and png image files from the linux
        command line to a networked HP laserjet postscript printer?
        \_ convert them to postscript, then print or have the print filters
           do it for you.
            \_ Thanks. Are text and postscript the only data streams that
               can get piped to a printer w/o/ filtering?
               \_ No. PCL or (to plotters) HPGL.
               \_ Maybe, but it depends on the specific printer model. In
                  any case, when printing from Unix, even if printer doesn't
                  speak postscript, postscript is usually  still used as a sort
                  of intermediate language between your data format and the
                  native printer language.
                  \- well this is perhaps not appropriate for your homebase
                     but for an institutional pritinting setup, you can
                     certainly create filters so that you can do lpr
                     foo.(dvi|tex|pdf) and the right thing happens ... this
                     is what i do at my lab. Similarly you should be able to
                     create an automatic filter for tiff etc. i dunno if that
                     is the right thing to do however. --psb
                     \_ Are your filters shell scripts? My printer is a
                        "HP LaserJet 4M plus PS" it has an ethernet
                        print-server card built in, so I'm also going to
                        have to do something to supress the "job info"
                        sheet that it prints with each print job. This
                        print server seems to ignore the relevant command
                        in the printcap file. I have this wierd fear that
                        I'm going to break my printer by setting it up
                        wrong under linux. Is this possible? Thanks a bunch
                        for your help! -op
                        \_ This is where "STFW" must be invoked.  There are
                           a multitude of pages dedicated to exactly this.
                           \_ Fair enough. -op
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