Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 21:22:16 -0700 From: Martin Alejandro Paredes Sanchez <mapsware@prodigy.net.mx> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to set up a network-attached printer Message-ID: <200710142122.17055.mapsware@prodigy.net.mx> In-Reply-To: <20071014152136.L27592@tripel.monochrome.org> References: <20071014085536.B35972@wonkity.com> <20071014152136.L27592@tripel.monochrome.org>
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El Dom 14 Oct 2007, Chris Hill escribi=F3: > On Sun, 14 Oct 2007, Warren Block wrote: > > For extra points, add another printcap entry for lp: that will print > > plain text. > > I did something essentially identical to what Warren outlined, and it's > worked fine for many years now, since long before I'd ever heard of > CUPS. Here's the printcap entry: > > # HP color laser > lp|snow|snowball|lj|ps|HP ColorLaserJet 4550N:\ > > :sh:\ > :sd=3D/var/spool/output/lpd:\ > :mx#0:\ > :lp=3D:rm=3Dsnowball:rp=3D"auto": > > By using various names separated by pipe symbols, they are all > equivalent. Since one of them is lp, you can just send text to the > printer and it works, e.g. > > $ lpr textfile A name of lp don't make a printer to print text files, it just save you to= =20 specify the printer (the -P option of lpr) > > I think that "lp" being the first entry makes it lpr's default; not > positive about that. It is not necessary be the first alias, it can be in any position, in my ca= se=20 I have: stylus-c65|lp|Epson Stylus C65:\ > > > /usr/ports/print/enscript* is nice for that, or lots of people use > > /usr/ports/print/apsfilter so they can send about anything to the > > printer and let it do the conversion. > > The printer should already know how to print text. Just send it via lpr; > no additional software needed. Not all the printer know how to print text, but if the Samsung ML-2571N=20 doesn't print text, I would use apsfilter. I know that all HP LaserJet support PCL and text, some models also support= =20 PostScript, I see you use rp=3D"auto" for your HP LaserJet 4550N, I had onl= y=20 use rp=3Draw and I also know that can be rp=3Dtext (to convert CR -> CRLF) = but I=20 never used. maps
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