{"id":543,"date":"1997-09-09T01:36:29","date_gmt":"1997-09-09T09:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdhouse.org\/betips\/?p=543"},"modified":"1997-09-09T01:36:29","modified_gmt":"1997-09-09T09:36:29","slug":"add-additional-printer-description-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/?p=543","title":{"rendered":"Add\n additional printer description files"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BeOS 5 adds more than 400 new printer description files, which means you can do PostScript printing from many more printers than before. If you have a PostScript printer that&#8217;s not listed in the Printer preferences panel, try this:<br \/>\nGo hit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/\">Adobe<\/a> web site and look around for a Postscript printer definition file (.ppd) for your printer model. If you happen to be a MacOS user, copy the file corresponding to your printer model from the System Folder (System Folder:Extensions:Printer Definitions).<br \/>\nAfter you download\/copy it, make sure it&#8217;s got the right line endings &#8212; open it up in BeIDE and click on the little &#8222;file&#8220; icon in the bottom left corner and choose &#8222;Be,&#8220; then save.<br \/>\nPlace the file in <code>\/boot\/beos\/etc\/ppd\/<\/code>.<br \/>\nWhen configuring your printer, choose &#8222;Apple Laserwriter Compatible&#8220;, and then select your newly-added printer model from the popup.<br \/>\nHopefully you&#8217;ll be able to print now. \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\nFor more information on things you can do to get unsupported printers up and running, see Watts Martin&#8217;s article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.benews.com\/BeMag\/?feature_id=54\">Don&#8217;t Give Up on Unsupported Printers<\/a> at BeNews.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BeOS 5 adds more than 400 new printer description files, which means you can do PostScript printing from many more printers than before. If you have a PostScript printer that&#8217;s not listed in the Printer preferences panel, try this: Go hit the Adobe web site and look around for a Postscript printer definition file (.ppd) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-hardware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}