From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 16 11:43:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ptavv.es.net (ptavv.es.net [198.128.4.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E707237B65D for ; Fri, 16 Feb 2001 11:43:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from ptavv.es.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ptavv.es.net (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id f1GJhUL00698; Fri, 16 Feb 2001 11:43:30 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200102161943.f1GJhUL00698@ptavv.es.net> To: Mike Meyer Cc: Peter Shpak , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE + HP DeskJet 820cxi problem In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 14 Feb 2001 05:47:52 CST." <14986.28776.318071.582685@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 11:43:30 -0800 From: "Kevin Oberman" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > From: Mike Meyer > Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 05:47:52 -0600 > Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > Peter Shpak types: > > hello. > > i have an HP DeskJet 820Cxi (a win printer) and i am > > running 4.2 Stable. I have configured apsfilter, but > > it does not print the test page. the printer is > > recognized during bootup. dmesg points out that it is > > connected on ppbus0. But sending text files to > > Since it's a win printer, you may be out of luck, just like win > modems. > > However, all apsfilter does is arrange to turn things into postscript, > then send them through ghostscript telling it to render for your > printer, and send the results of *that* to the printer. If ghostscript > doesn't recognize your printer, you're going to have problems getting > much beyond flat text to print. apsfilter should have used the list of > devices from gs to generate a list of printers for you to check > from. Did you find your printer, or one you knew it was compatible > with? If so, you might try using lpr to get the ghostscript printer > driver working. Just to avoid confusion, the 820cxi is NOT a winprinter. It uses PCL3 and is supported with the hpdj add-on to GhostScript. apsfilter has it in its device list. Also, when you copy a file to the device, don't forget to put a on the end. (Brute force of 'cat - /dev/lpt0' followed by Ctrl-L and Ctrl-D will work.) Don't expect anything readable as there will be no returns in the output, but it should print something. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message