I searched for this questin and found one that has not been addressed for a nearly a year, so, here we go:

I am trying to get Mozilla to print Japanese to my Postscript printer (HP 4M+) with no results. All I get is the standard square that means no matching character.

I am running Mozilla 1.3b (which prints fine on a Windows machine) under a Slackware release 7 that has been tinkered up to 2.4.x kernel levels.

Does anyone know of any means to either get the needed fonts downloaded or passed through a filter to render as graphics? I am quite able to re-build my printing subsystem if needed.

Right now, the issue is printing hiragana, but eventually I will want katakana and kanji as well.

I am currently using a plain lpd-daemon printing system.

Thanks.

sounds like a unicode problem, does the font you are using have characters you want?

My system is currently running an ordinary lpd-daemon printing system. Under this setup, the only way for a font other than the basic 6 or 8 ASCII- based standard fonts to be used is for the application to download them, like DOS-based WordPerfect would do.

Mozilla is showing the characters correctly on-screen, but I need to get the printer in on this somehow. I know there are more advanced printing systems, such as CUPS, I have been researching that and have not yet found anything that says that installing it would help me.

I cannot add any fonts to the printer except by font cartridge (yes, the early 4s were the last with a slot for this) as there is no flash or hard drive.

Even if I have the font I need, my problem is getting it to the printer when needed. Any ideas will be leaped upon and tested.