From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 28 12:10:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dolphin.lewiz.org (dialup.212-50-179-81.karoo.KCOM.COM [212.50.179.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3ECC437B438 for ; Tue, 28 May 2002 12:07:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from turtle.lewiz.org (turtle.lewiz.org [192.168.0.9]) by dolphin.lewiz.org with esmtp; Tue, 28 May 2002 19:07:18 +0000 Subject: Re: How to Configure a HP Laserjet Printer to Use From: lewiz To: parv Cc: gjh292@263.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20020528185850.GA50900@moo.holy.cow> References: <20020528185850.GA50900@moo.holy.cow> X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.5 Date: 28 May 2002 20:07:18 +0100 Message-Id: <1022612842.259.17.camel@turtle.lewiz.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=_dolphin.lewiz.org-17109-1022612841-0001-2" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a MIME-formatted message. If you see this text it means that your E-mail software does not support MIME-formatted messages. --=_dolphin.lewiz.org-17109-1022612841-0001-2 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Guys, For all your printing needs you might look to apsfilter (print/apsfilter). It's a wonderful piece of software that uses, iirc GIMP print, and is damn cool. I have it working just great with an HP LaserJer 5P and I have a feeling the 5L is better than the 5P. -lewiz. On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 19:58, parv wrote: > in message , wrote Jianhong > Gao thusly... > > > > I've just configured a HP Laserjet 5L to my computer running > > Freebsd 4.2 ... When I run "lptest > /dev/lpt0", the output is > > just a line of characters including something untelligible. After > > setupping /etc/printcap(without any filter specified) and > > invoking lpd, "lptest | lpr" get the same result. >=20 > no clue... >=20 >=20 > > When I try to print sth. to it, using "ps | lpr" or "myls > > | lpr" or "lpr -r myfile", though the paper is fed in, nothing is > > printed. >=20 > in last case you should have gotten something. was lpd running > while you did "ps | lpr"? any errors in lpd error log? this error > log file is specified in the printcap. >=20 >=20 > > Is there some special filter I should use to make my HP laserjet > > printer work correctly? If so, what's it and where can I get it? >=20 > assuming hp 5l is a ps (postscript) printer... >=20 > i too have a ps printer (lexmark optra e310) and i use enscript > (available from ports) as the input filter. enscript converts > non-ps, non-pcl (, and perhaps non-pdf) files to ps before printing. >=20 > i happened to see mention of hp 5l laserjet in ghostscript-gnu port; > see if that would offer any additional benefit over enscript. >=20 >=20 > - parv >=20 > --=20 > =20 >=20 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >=20 --=20 `Linux is for people who hate Microsoft. FreeBSD is for people who love UNIX.` Website accessible from http://www.lewiz.info/ GPG public keyring: http://www.westwood.karoo.net/pubring.gpg --=_dolphin.lewiz.org-17109-1022612841-0001-2 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEABECAAYFAjzz1WYACgkQENEq59FkzSr6ewCeJ5ih36OIL3DgO1v7wUjRNc71 mLMAniEULwJGX195lsmQmUnySeGYs/dB =et85 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=_dolphin.lewiz.org-17109-1022612841-0001-2-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message