diff --git a/crates/eps/src/import/interp.rs b/crates/eps/src/import/interp.rs
index cf7c5495a..3908bd41b 100644
--- a/crates/eps/src/import/interp.rs
+++ b/crates/eps/src/import/interp.rs
@@ -1050,10 +1050,10 @@ impl<'a> Interp<'a> {
                 self.insert(&d, k, Some(v))?;
             }
             Known => {
-                let k = self.pop()?.key().ok_or(PsError::Ps("typecheck", String::new()))?;
+                let k = self.pop()?;
                 let d = self.pop_dict()?;
-                let known = d.borrow().contains_key(&k);
-                self.push(Obj::Bool(known))?;
+                let found = known(&d, &k)?;
+                self.push(Obj::Bool(found))?;
             }
             Where => {
                 let k = self.pop()?.key().ok_or(PsError::Ps("typecheck", String::new()))?;
@@ -1418,6 +1418,16 @@ fn index(k: &Obj) -> Res<usize> {
     }
 }
 
+/// `known`: a key may be any object but null (PLRM 3rd ed.), and one that can't be a key here (an
+/// array, a dictionary, a real with a fraction) is in no dictionary, since `put` refuses it.
+fn known(d: &DictRef, k: &Obj) -> Res<bool> {
+    match k.key() {
+        Some(key) => Ok(d.borrow().contains_key(&key)),
+        None if matches!(k, Obj::Null) => ps_err("typecheck", "known"),
+        None => Ok(false),
+    }
+}
+
 /// `eq`: numbers by value, strings and names by text, composites by identity.
 fn equal(a: &Obj, b: &Obj) -> bool {
     match (a, b) {
diff --git a/crates/eps/src/import/tests.rs b/crates/eps/src/import/tests.rs
index f249ebf31..7435fc8b2 100644
--- a/crates/eps/src/import/tests.rs
+++ b/crates/eps/src/import/tests.rs
@@ -996,6 +996,17 @@ fn the_standard_dictionaries_are_dictionaries_in_systemdict() {
     check("SharedFontDirectory type /dicttype eq");
 }
 
+/// A key may be any object but null (PLRM 3rd ed.), so `known` answers for every other key.
+/// Ghostscript's `eps2write` looks an inline image's filter up in a dictionary of abbreviations,
+/// and the filter may be an array of them.
+#[test]
+fn known_answers_false_for_keys_no_dictionary_holds() {
+    check("<< /A85 /ASCII85Decode >> [ /A85 /LZW ] known not");
+    check("1 dict 1 dict known not 1 dict 1.5 known not and 1 dict mark known not and");
+    check("<< /A85 /ASCII85Decode >> /A85 known << 1 2 >> 1.0 known and");
+    check("{ 1 dict null known } stopped");
+}
+
 #[test]
 fn dictstack_and_internaldict_answer() {
     check("10 array dictstack length countdictstack eq");