From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 26 17:51:51 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0761C106564A for ; Sun, 26 Feb 2012 17:51:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from mx01.qsc.de (mx01.qsc.de [213.148.129.14]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B71398FC13 for ; Sun, 26 Feb 2012 17:51:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from r56.edvax.de (port-92-195-185-71.dynamic.qsc.de [92.195.185.71]) by mx01.qsc.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC9343DD7B; Sun, 26 Feb 2012 18:51:49 +0100 (CET) Received: from r56.edvax.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by r56.edvax.de (8.14.5/8.14.5) with SMTP id q1QHpm5r002793; Sun, 26 Feb 2012 18:51:48 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 18:51:48 +0100 From: Polytropon To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20120226185148.34d9b63c.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <4F497814.9000704@herveybayaustralia.com.au> References: <20120225221433.cba3d0dd.freebsd@edvax.de> <20120225231409.fdd67bff.freebsd@edvax.de> <4F497814.9000704@herveybayaustralia.com.au> Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.1.1 (GTK+ 2.24.5; i386-portbld-freebsd8.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Da Rock Subject: Re: Installing Samsung CLX-2160 color laser printer on USB using CUPS X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Polytropon List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 17:51:51 -0000 On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 10:08:52 +1000, Da Rock wrote: > I don't know that I can add anything to the cups discussion here, but I > understand you'd rather use lpr anyway. You are aware that the printer > will only speak splix the samsung universal driver language? So any > config would have to be based on that. The foo2qpdl-wrapper program seems to support that fine. > Once you have that working maybe you can manually add the printer in > cups using lpd. Maybe? For sure! It's quite easy to do it (make entry in /etc/printcap, create spool directories, write printer filter one-liner "foo2qpdl-wrapper -p 2 -c" which is the essential part). I just hope printing will be possible from applications (Opera, OpenOffice and Gimp are the primary candidates) afterwards. You know, many "modern" programs _expect_ CUPS to be present, some have hardcoded "calls" to CUPS programs, some seem to even _not_ output PS (which should be standard), but instead PCL or whatnot. > JIC you haven't considered this yet... HIH :) Considered - yes, but I thought I would be able to avoid it and use the "modern" CUPS toolkit for something simple like printing. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...