Laser Printer Support

To print Korean characters using a PostScript-based printer, a Korean Solaris software application must have the Korean Solaris xetops utility to print EUC files, xutops to print UTF--8 files, or the mp utility.

Using xetops and xutops Utilities

The xetops and xutops utilities produce bitmapped graphics as printed images. Korean Solaris software includes the xetops and xutops utilities so any system can print Korean text on a PostScript printer. The xetops utility in EUC locale and xutops Utility in UTF--8 locale may no longer be supported in the future.

• xetops handles files in the ko locale

• xutops handles files in the ko.UTF-8 locale

Using xetops and xutops is described in Korean Solaris User's Guide, in the chapter "Korean Printing Facilities," and in the xetops(1) and xutops(1) man pages.

A typical command line for printing a file named filename containing Korean characters with xetops, would be as follows:

system% pr filename | xetops | lp 

The syntax for xutops is similar:

system% pr filename | xutops | lp 

Make filename the name of the file to print. This file can contain ASCII/English characters as well as Korean.

Using the mp Utility

The mp utility supports all asian locales. As a printing filter, mp generates a pretitified version of contents in PostScript format. The Postscript output file contains glyph images from Solaris system-resident scalable or bitmap fonts, depending on each locale's system font configuration for mp. As a print filter mp(1), is enhanced in the Solaris 9 environment to print either ko file in ko locale or UTF-8 files in ko.UTF-8 locales.

A typical command line for printing a file named filename containing Korean characters with or without ASCII/English characters, would be as follows:

system% mp filename | lp -d printer

Make filename the name of the file to print. This file can contain ASCII/English characters as well as Korean.