From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 27 22:57:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA24807 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 22:57:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cybertouch.org (cybertouch.org [209.47.145.231]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA24800 for ; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 22:57:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from beef@cybertouch.org) Received: from localhost (beef@localhost) by cybertouch.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id BAA02284; Tue, 28 Apr 1998 01:56:01 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from beef@cybertouch.org) Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 01:55:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Lanny Baron To: "Rick C. Petty" cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Printing (can't get it right) In-Reply-To: <199804271248.IAA10498@kris.wpi.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 27 Apr 1998, Rick C. Petty wrote: > > I am wondering if anyone else here besides Mr. Lehey (hi Greg) has > > been able to get a printer such as a Canon BJC-4100 to print, legibly. I > > have tried with ghostscript (can't figure that either), with postscript > > (ditto) and have now pulled about 320 hairs out of my head. > > Well I wasn't getting anything to work when I first tried setting up printers > but I learned how to get it to work on my system. What version of FreeBSD > are you using? Hello Rick, What version of ghostscript do you have installed? 2.2.6 What > device type did you specify to ghostscript? I could not figure out how to use ghostscript but i believe its 5.10 What problems were you having? > Meaning "I got something to print out but it was garbage" or "lpq was saying > there was no printer daemon present". my printer prints a few words and the lines come out like this all the time and then off the page :-( > > I'm no expert but I'll offer what help I can, > I do appreciate your help Rick, Thank you, Lanny Baron > --Rick C. Petty, aka Snoopy mailto: rick@kris.wpi.edu > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > C/C++/DBMS/SQL/Perl/Java/HTML http://kris.wpi.edu/~rick/ > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message