From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 26 18:50:59 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 B41ED106566B for ; Sun, 26 Feb 2012 18:50:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [67.158.26.137]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CD588FC18 for ; Sun, 26 Feb 2012 18:50:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q1QIotAb010871; Sun, 26 Feb 2012 11:50:55 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) with ESMTP id q1QIotd8010868; Sun, 26 Feb 2012 11:50:55 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 11:50:55 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block To: Polytropon In-Reply-To: <20120226185148.34d9b63c.freebsd@edvax.de> Message-ID: References: <20120225221433.cba3d0dd.freebsd@edvax.de> <20120225231409.fdd67bff.freebsd@edvax.de> <4F497814.9000704@herveybayaustralia.com.au> <20120226185148.34d9b63c.freebsd@edvax.de> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Sun, 26 Feb 2012 11:50:55 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, 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 List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 18:50:59 -0000 On Sun, 26 Feb 2012, Polytropon wrote: > 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. Opera, I have not tried. OpenOffice and LibreOffice print through lpd fine. Printing through Gutenprint in Gimp also works without CUPS. Something has a probably-unnecessary dependency on cups-client, so it's installed here, but none of the rest of CUPS. PS: using the non-resetting unlpt0 device is often helpful. A network connection is still better.