Re: [h-e-w] Postcript printing help

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 11:14:41 -0700
> From: "Michael Flynn" <address@hidden>
> 
> (setq printer-name "//avalon/OffcLsr")
> (setq ps-printer-name "//avalon/OffcLsr")
> 
> The buffer I am trying to print is just aa few oines of ASCII.
> 
> If I execute print-buffer it works and goes to the correct printer.
> 
> When I use ps-print-buffer it goes to the correct printer but it
> prints as though one had inadvertently sent a random binary file (i.e.
> not postscript file) to the printer, that is a dozens of pages with
> just a few  characters on the top couple of lines.

Is that printer a PostScript printer?

Can you show us the first few lines of what is printed by
ps-print-buffer?

> I do not remember having to do anythign special beyond settinfg the
> name of the printer previously - but then my memory is not what it
> used to be.

If the printer isn't a PostScript printer, perhaps you used
Ghostscript to print from ps-print-buffer.