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Re: gnuplot to hp8600

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    Thanks Gavin.

    Yes, presently gnuplot puts out a postscript file.  It gets
sent to a HP 2500 color laser and it works perfectly.

    But the new HP popular models do not support postscript
any more and only support a crippled level of PCL3.

    So a converter from postscript to PCL would be nice,
or a gloal engine like ghostscript/HPLIP would also be nice
if it worked.

    Thanks for your time and expertise.

    Homer

Gavin Buxton <gavinbuxton@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Friday, June 8, 2018 at 11:49:07 PM UTC-4, ho...@lightlink.com wrote:
>> Running CentOS 7, latest gnuplot 4.6.2
>> 
>>     Can someone please point me how to plot from gnuplot
>> to a HP 8600 Office Jet Pro?
>> 
>>     The HP won't take postscript.
>> 
>>     Thanks in advance,
>> 
>>     Homer W. Smith
>>     CEO Lightlink Internet
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Homer Wilson Smith   Clean Air, Clear Water,    Art Matrix - Lightlink
>> (607) 277-0959       A Green Earth, and Peace,  Internet, Ithaca NY
>> homer@lightlink.com  Is that too much to ask?   http://www.lightlink.com
> 
> Hi
> 
> I'm probably misunderstanding, but it sounds like you want to print from gnuplot. I don't know if that is possible. You'd usually print to file (look up changing the terminal to postscript, or other formats). And then print the file. Of course you could "!lpr yourfile.ps" from inside gnuplot, but it wouldn'tbe gnuplot printing out the file (ust creating the file for lpr to print).
> 
> Best
> 
> 
> Gavin

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Homer Wilson Smith   Clean Air, Clear Water,    Art Matrix - Lightlink
(607) 277-0959       A Green Earth, and Peace,  Internet, Ithaca NY
homer@lightlink.com  Is that too much to ask?   http://www.lightlink.com

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gnuplot to hp8600 homer@lightlink.com - 2018-06-08 23:49 -0400
  Re: gnuplot to hp8600 Ethan Merritt <eamerritt@gmail.com> - 2018-06-10 01:10 +0000
    Re: gnuplot to hp8600 homer@lightlink.com - 2018-06-10 23:24 -0400
      Re: gnuplot to hp8600 Ethan Merritt <eamerritt@gmail.com> - 2018-06-11 15:15 +0000
        Re: gnuplot to hp8600 homer@lightlink.com - 2018-06-11 17:31 -0400
  Re: gnuplot to hp8600 Gavin Buxton <gavinbuxton@gmail.com> - 2018-06-10 08:18 -0700
    Re: gnuplot to hp8600 homer@lightlink.com - 2018-06-10 23:27 -0400

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