Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 17:16:12 -0900 From: Rusty <irisinc@gci.net> To: FreeBSD-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Printing Message-ID: <382CC9EC.B6E7462F@gci.net>
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Good day; I am running FreeBSD 3.2 on an Asus P3 w/ a 400 MgH Celeron, 64 Mg of RAM, Riva TNT /w 16 Mg of RAM, sound card, etc.;. I used the Complete Free BSD, Freebsd Manual, discussion group archives and have lurked on this list for three months trying to get printing configured on my machine. I wrote /etc/printcap as instructed for my HP LaserJet 6MP, did all of the testing and finally took everyone's advice and installed apsfilter. First try with apsfilter was a message that the address in the port files was no good. After finding Andreas Klemm's web page and hacking the port Makefile to reflect the new address I was able to download apsfilter. The only problem I then had was that the checksum did not match the file on the web site. I proceeded anyway and the port installed. I configured the apsfilter SETUP program for my printer (which BTW will only be allowed to use the ghostscript LaserJet IV driver, Not the PCL 5-6 family) ran the test page and got a picture of a tiger's head. Well, almost a complete picture of a Tiger's head; about the top left hand corner of a page that if complete would be the size of four (4) 8.5 x 11 sheets of paper. When printing a page, the fonts are anywhere from 20 to 36 points and produce that same 1/4 page. I read the man page, the archives, ghostscript README, Use.htm, etc., etc. I don't know how I got this resolution or how to change it back to a reasonable size. Before I came to FreeBSD, I used the BSD printing system on Linux. The system is in need of a major overhaul but it seems to work well on Linux. I can't understand how I am having so much trouble here. Any help will be appreciated. Rusty To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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