On Wed, 6 Feb 2008, Matthias Scheler wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 10:00:29PM -0800, Paul Goyette wrote:
>> I'd still like to make plain-text printing work if I could just figure
>> out how to insert the go-back-to-left-margin command!
>
> You could try "magicfilter" from the package of the same name in "pkgsrc".
> I use the following entry with an HP Laserjet 4:
>
    <snip>
>
> That allows me to print plain-text, postscript and a lot of other formats
> with "lpr".

Much better with the text, but graphics now print only in grayscale.

I guess I need to tweak the filter's ghsotscript command a bit to match 
my printer, rather than the generic deskjet.

Thanks to all who helped make this simple task less daunting!  :)


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