The shortest postscript I know to test a printer:
%!
newpath clippath stroke showpage
It will draw a line around the page clipping path (i.e., the outer most edge the printer can print at).
Sean
PS That's also short enough to type at a printer if you connect to it with 'nc'. :-)
> On Aug 2, 2022, at 06:11, Ben Hancock <ben@benghancock.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2 Aug 2022 02:09:37 -0400
> gwes <gwes@oat.com> wrote:
>
>> Are you sure that you're feeding the printer a valid postscript file?
>> If there isn't something like
>> (TimesRoman) findfont 48 scalefont setfont 200 300 moveto (text) show
>> showpage
>> nothing happens.
>
> I believe so. The two samples I've tried were generated with man and
> enscript. I can open them both fine with ghostscript and zathura.
>
> - Ben
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