Re: Printing.

Shawn Bayern (shawn.bayern@yale.edu)
Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:57:48 -0400 (EDT)

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On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Rinendra Shakya wrote:

> Hi. Does anyone know what file format Netscape uses to output to the
> printer? I recently got this laser printer (Brother MFC6550MC which uses
> PCL 4 - HP laserjet IIP emulation), and I am having a darn time geting
> it to print any file. The only thing it can correctly print is from
> within Netscape.

I'm pretty sure Netscape just generates PostScript. I don't know why your
printer would have trouble printing plain text files, but you can convert
plain text to PostScript with utilities like 'nenscript'.

Shawn

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