From:	MERC::"uunet!CRVAX.SRI.COM!RELAY-INFO-VAX"  4-JAN-1993 21:53:11.78
To:	info-vax@kl.sri.com
CC:	
Subj:	Re: DEClaser 1152 attached to Sparcstation?

There's nothing particularly weird about the ULTRIX print filter for the
DEClaser series.  It essentially reads standard input, decides if the input is
PostScript or plain text, and, if the input is text, it converts it to
PostScript.  There's a number of PD programs that will do the same.

This may be obvious to you, and if so I apologize, but many novice PostScript
users don't realize that PS printers can't and won't print a text file unless
it has first been converted to PostScript.  

Get a known good PS file, then try sending THAT to the printer. It should
print. Note that PS printers are finicky - if you send any printable
characters that are not part of a legitimate PostScript stream, the file
probably won't print. A simple way of testing is to do something like this:

From sh or ksh, first disable the print queue for your printer.

Then type the following :
(
stty 9600 cooked 
cat name_of_PostScript_file
) >/dev/tty?? </dev/tty??

Replace the tty?? with the actual device name. You may have to tinker with
the stty settings - I'm assuming 9600 baud.  If you have those right, and
specify a real PostScript file, it should print.  Past that, you'll need a 
text to PS translator bolted into the printcap entry for the device.

Hope that helps.
Eric Osborne