From: James Griffiths (jamesg at domain linsol.com)
Date: Thu 13 May 1999 - 14:00:16 IST
Eoin Phillips wrote:
> and with two pages to a sheet of paper (like
> printing pages of an A5 book on landscape A4). Has anyone any experience
> of this printer or any ideas what might fix this problem?
I don't think the "a5 effect" is printer specific. SuSE uses the
apsfilter package to manage printers - apsfilter is a collection
of scripts etc. which try to provide sensible printer behaviour
automatically for a variety of common input files.
In the case of text files, the text is fed through a2ps to produce
postscript and this is then fed through ghostscript to provide
a printer-specific output format.
The behaviour of apsfilter and a2ps can be altered via the file :
/etc/apsfilterrc.<printer_name>
Specifically, to have A4 output, uncomment the
"FEATURE=" line in this file and change it to read :
FEATURE=1n
There is a documented example apsfilterrc file in :
/var/lib/apsfilter/template
There is also an stcolor related option described in this file
which may solve the color/mono printing problem.
Kind Regards,
James Griffiths
Linux Solutions
http://www.linsol.com/
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