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Date:      Thu, 11 Jan 2001 11:39:52 +0100
From:      Christoph Sold <christoph.sold@server.i-clue.de>
To:        Jonathan Wright <wrightcs@home.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Printing problems / apsfilter
Message-ID:  <3A5D8D78.A57336FB@i-clue.de>
References:  <4.3.2.7.2.20010110150948.00b1a410@wheresmymailserver.com>

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Jonathan Wright schrieb:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm having some trouble printing.
> 
> I listened to some of those posts on installing apsfilter as nice way to
> setup your printer.
> I went ahead and installed apsfilter too.
> 
> I have a Brother MFC 4350 printer.  It says on their website it will work
> as an HP Laserjet IIP
> So thats how I installed it w/ apsfilter's/gs's  ./SETUP program - ljet2p
> 
> It does print tiny little files like ( cat .login | lpr  ) ok.  However, if
> I try a larger file like ( /COPYRIGHT )  my printer will either restart
> after  5 or so minutes - or I'll finally get the first page 5 or so minutes
> later and continue at that pace.  Printing the sample.ps file including
> with apsfilter will make the printer lockup too after several minutes.  I
> was able to print a tiny .ps file however.


Looks there is very little RAM installed in your Printer. You need at
least 1MB RAM (inside the Printer) to hold one complete A4 page at
300dpi. Don't know if this is true for US formats, too.

HTH
-Christoph Sold


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