Emulating a laser printer (was Epson Printing)

["Alain M." <alainm@pobox.com>]

Hi Jan,

Thanks for your reply :) :) I installed GhostPCL reconfigured my DOS 
program and it is working wonderfully.

So here is what I did:
1) download and compile GhostPCL (http://www.artifex.com/downloads/)

2) Configure Dosemu with this to generate PS (faster then PDF) and 
convert from stdin to stdout sending to printer:
$_printer_command = "pcl6 -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pswrite 
-sOutputFile=- - | lpr -P EpsonC87"

I only tested with a simple DOS program, I will test with some CAD later.

As for Epson PS, maybe someday I will test it. I haven't tested it 
because it is a very old source code which will probably take some work 
to use with new compilers.

Alain

Jan Willem Stumpel escreveu:
> I haven't, but this approach is sound in principle. I do a similar
> thing with the HP (PCL) control language.
> 
> My Brother printer (with its drivers) only understands
> Postscript and pdf. I made an input filter (for lprng) that
> changes PCL to pdf, using pcl2pdf, which is part of GhostPCL
> (http://www.artifex.com/downloads/). I tell my DOS programs that
> they are talking to an HP Laserjet. Pure "raw text" is first
> changed into PCL by prepending a PCL initialisation string. This
> works. DOS programs can print both text and graphics.