Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 22:57:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> To: Richard Mahoney <rbm49@ext.canterbury.ac.nz> Cc: fozekizer@attbi.com, Subscribers to FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: HP laserjetIII compatibility? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10205202250360.23706-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> In-Reply-To: <20020521051222.GA180@ext.canterbury.ac.nz>
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On Tue, 21 May 2002, Richard Mahoney wrote: > On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 07:56:40PM +0000, fozekizer@attbi.com wrote: > > Can someone point me to a location that has a good > > printcap for an HP LaserJet III? I am having problems > > getting FreeBSD 4.3R to communicate with the printer. I > > am using printcap, if-simple, and other necessary items > > directly from the FreeBSD handbook, but, nothing wants > > to communicate with the printer (which, btw, works > > beautifully, but not in FREEBSD at the moment) > > apsfilter-7.2.2 > > Many regards, > > Richard Mahoney > The LaserJet III uses the Hewlett-Packard PCL language and does not do postscript; apsfilter causes it to emulate postscript. If you want to print a text file on your LJ III with the default printcap entry, you can change the line endings with unix2dos (this is a port). Then you should be able to cat the file to /dev/lpt0 (if that's where the printer is) or type lpr -Plp <filename>. That at least will ensure that you can communicate with the printer. I wrote a port (called pclprint) for printing on PCL LaserJets by putting the necessary PCL language codes in the document. However it is so hard to use I hardly ever used it myself. Annelise -- Annelise Anderson Author of: FreeBSD: An Open-Source Operating System for Your PC Available from: BSDmall.com and amazon.com Book Website: http://www.bittreepress.com/FreeBSD/introbook/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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