Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 16:53:36 +0200 (CEST) From: Supervisor auf MAIL <root@mail.physik.uni-mainz.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: PS trouble/TRAY select/magicfilter/HP LJ4500 Message-ID: <20020421163527.S70250-100000@mail.physik.uni-mainz.de>
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Dear Sirs. I have a lot of trouble getting a HP C-LJ4500 colour printer to work correctly. More than two years ago we set up a printer farm with HP JetDirect 500X printservers which are maintained and delivered by a FreeBSD 4.X-STABLE box. Filtering was done by 'magicfilter' with a great success. Since we switched from FreeBSD 4.3 to 4.4 we have trouble. At this moment FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE as cvsupdated last time the 13th April and a renewal of all relevant ports (a2ps, psutils, magicfilter, etc.) of the same time. I think it has nothing to do with the operating system but I would like to mention this curious behaviour I watched since we changed. I think there is a issue of changes in psset which is used by magicfilter, and a general problem with the HP4500, I guess. The HP 4500 has two trays, one with a small capacity used for transparencies, one with 500 sheet capacity (tray number 3) for plain A4 paper. In its appropriate setup file this printerqueue (lj4500cf) has this two relevant entries which seem to do the weird stuff: 0 %! filter /usr/local/bin/psset -q --setpagedevice="MediaType:(Transparency)" 0 \004%! filter /usr/local/bin/psset -q --setpagedevice="MediaType:(Transparency)" This works, also works is MediaPosition:0 but both options won't work if I offer the additional psset option '-n' which means that no fixing is done (some documents of our department run out of memory when printed due to the fact they are hughe). I did the tests with the Adobe tiger.ps file taken from the ghostscript port. Applying the '-n' option prevents this file from beeing printed on the desired transparency, instead I get a plain paper. Doing a 'ls|lpr -Plj4500cf' on the console with the '-n' option eneabled in the printer's filtersetup file offers me a transparency print result, but I can not print the tiger.ps by typing 'lpr -Plj4500cf tiger.ps'. There are many other files which get messed that way. To figure out what happens I removed the plain paper tray to see whether the printer tries to select the transparency box, but it didn't. It wants me to put manually plain paper in tray 1 (manual feed tray), it never touches tray 2 (transparency). What's going on? There is no statement in 'tiger.ps' that says: printer, print this on plain or letter, but never on transparencies! Does anyone have any glue? For those who are firm in using postscript: how to FORCE the printer using the transparency tray without offering the psset's '-n' option? What is going on with those 'fixes', eating up all the memory and what is psset fixing in tiger.ps to make this file be printable on transparencies? Please help! Thanks, Oliver To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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