From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 28 16:27:12 2011 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 3E215106566B for ; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 16:27:12 +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 DEF908FC21 for ; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 16:27:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from r55.edvax.de (port-92-195-103-124.dynamic.qsc.de [92.195.103.124]) by mx01.qsc.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDE213D5C0; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 18:27:10 +0200 (CEST) Received: from r55.edvax.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by r55.edvax.de (8.14.2/8.14.2) with SMTP id p6SGR9L3002743; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 18:27:10 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 18:27:09 +0200 From: Polytropon To: Antonio Olivares Message-Id: <20110728182709.8a23ff2f.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: References: <20110728151507.0c150f3c.freebsd@edvax.de> <20110728171430.4b900bea.freebsd@edvax.de> <20110728175744.3affff26.freebsd@edvax.de> Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.7 (GTK+ 2.12.1; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: printing to a HP Deskjet 812C printer 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: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 16:27:12 -0000 On Thu, 28 Jul 2011 11:06:47 -0500, Antonio Olivares wrote: > On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Polytropon wrote: > > On Thu, 28 Jul 2011 10:44:52 -0500, Antonio Olivares wrote: > >> Made the changes with global /etc/csh.cshrc and it did not work :( > > > > Requires re-login, but reboot should also be fine. :-) > > Rebooted and firefox did not print :( Does it have some _overriding_ settings in its printer dialog? > Did not try these, as I reverted to .bashrc export PRINTER option. You said that bash's "echo $PRINTER" would show the correct name, so things should be fine. > This did work, the > $ lpr /etc/rc.conf > > [olivares@quadcore ~]$ echo $PRINTER > Deskjet > [olivares@quadcore ~]$ lpq > no entries > [olivares@quadcore ~]$ lpr /etc/rc.conf > [olivares@quadcore ~]$ lpq > Deskjet is ready and printing > Rank Owner Job Files Total Size > 1st olivares 6 /etc/rc.conf 512 bytes > [olivares@quadcore ~]$ As it should be. The processing from "plain text" to whatever you need for the printer is done by the printer filter (e. g. ghostscript-based, apsfilter, CUPS, or something custom). > Firefox 5 does not have the properties option :( you mentioned. It > has File -> Page Setup, File -> Print Preview, File -> Print [General > -> Page Settings -> Options], but no properties to change printer > options :( Very strange. But then, Firefox should address the DEFAULT printer queue, which is the one $PRINTER points to. Maybe you can try to print from a different web browser, e. g. Opera, just for testing? > Thank you for the help, I am almost there, in fact I > can live with what I got :) There is a "workaround" for this, and the emphasize is on "work": You can have Firefox printing to a file instead to the $PRINTER. This file will be a postscript file. You can _then_ send this PS file (per lpr ) to the printer. :-) But I would really suggest to look into Firefox's settings. There must be something strange inside. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...