Re: gsprint 1.4 under Redmon and Windows 2000 SP1

[Dave Ulrick]

On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 11:38:48 GMT, Russell Lang <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>Dave Ulrick wrote in message ...
>>I'm running Ghostscript 6.50 and Gsview 3.6 under Windows 2000 Service
>>Pack 1.  I've been trying to use gsprint 1.4 with Redmon 1.5 to convert
>>and print incoming Postscript data to a Windows GDI printer (a Canon
>>BubbleJet BJC-250).
>
>>Couldn't open Windows GDI printer driver
>>Printer name: "Canon BubbleJet BJC-250"
>>
>>If I change the printer name to something else, whether it's a valid
>>printer name (such as my HP Laserjet 2100) or nonsense, I always get
>>the message "Couldn't open windows GDI printer driver".
>
>See http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/redmon/
>and look at the link about Windows NT and mswinpr2.
>It sounds like the same problem.

Yes, that's my problem, and following the instructions on this page
(adding a pointer in the registry to the Windows printer) fixed
it.  Now gsprint works fine through redmon.

Thanks!

Dave
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Northern Illinois University         Web:     http://www.niu.edu/~ulrick/
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