Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 14:33:45 +0100 From: Ian Morrison <ian@darq.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: lpd and laserjet iii Message-ID: <20020906143345.A27223@phear.darq.net>
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hey, i just picked up a couple of laserjet iii printers, and am trying to get them to work nicely on my freebsd fileserver. ultimately i want to get it all going under samba, but at the moment i'm using lpr to test printing postscript documents. i've set it up roughly as shown on http://lantech.geekvenue.net/chucktips/jason/chuck/999547495/index_html and printing ascii works fine. printing smaller postscript files works ok too, but from time to time the printer pops up the message "MEM OVERFLOW" on its display, which means it's run out of memory. the other issue is that it's trying to print out on letter paper, rather than a4, despite me using the make a4=yes option when building the ghostscript-afpl-nox11 port, so i have to press continue on the printer to get the printer to use the a4 paper which is loaded. so, my questions are as follows: 1. is there a way to get lpd to send data in smaller chunks? or does the printer simply not have enough memory to be able to print complex documents? i was trying with /usr/src/lib/libc/db/docs/hash.usenix.ps which i don't think is an unreasonable size to print.. 2. which version of ghostscript should i be running? would a different one help? 3. would something like cups help? 4. when i print from windows (a web page or the printer test page) graphics come out fine, but the text is all mangled with punctuation symbols. anyone got any ideas? thanks for any help, ian -- :: darq.net /#/ :: to start press any key | where's the To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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