Printer Options for SUN

[phill%med-image.compsci.bristol.ac.uk at nsfnet-relay.ac.uk]

>We would like to do as much of the following as possible:

>1.  Screen dumps to printers from our SUN color and b/w terminals
You need the program psraster which is, I believe, in the rice archives
otherwise I have a copy here (public domain). This program is the best
I have found for general Sun raster printing. The actual generation of
the screendump can be done by the Sun standard screendump command.

>2.  Print PostScript files and format text files for PostScript
You either need the Sun product transcript (about $1500? list) or you
could use the public domain alternative applef (which we use here) and
which is in the LaTeX distribution. Applef or transcript are both
perfectly capable of meeting your requirements.

>3.  Print Latex files
Included with the LaTeX distribution is the program dvi2ps which
converts dvi files (LaTeX output) to postscript which can then be
printed out using the methods in (2).

>4.  Print cgm files like those created by SUN GKS
We have the Sun GKS package here; however, I do not use it. I do know
that we do produce postscript printouts using no other software tho' so
looks like the Sun GKS distribution is sufficent.

In all of the above cases we have gone the public domain route where
available and all works fine with SunOS 4.01 and Laserwriter II NTX's.

Hope this is of some help to you,

Phill Everson
Medical Imaging
Dept Comp Sci
University of Bristol, UK