Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 02:25:06 -0600 From: Michael Maxwell <drwho@xnet.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Printing and ppbus? Message-ID: <19990312022506.A4926@drwho.xnet.com>
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Just curious what exactly has happened to the printing system with the
3.x BSD (3.1-RELEASE in particular). I use the print filter that is
described in the FreeBSD handbook for combining text and postscript
files on the same printer using ghostscript. I used this exact same
script (plus a few simpler variations thereof) on earlier (2.x) FreeBSD
releases without any problem.
However, on FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE, if I print postscript, I now see the
first few lines of text normally, then things start to fall apart. A
lot of what looks like unprintable control characters start spewing out
of the printer (looks like someone lpr'ed a binary file).
The system: FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE
The printer: HP Deskjet 672c
The interpreter: ghostscript-5.50
There's also the occasional problem of dropped characters and other
wierdness when printing plain text files, too.
What I'd like to know is:
a) is anyone else experiencing similar problems?
b) is this likely to be a fault of the new parallel port code in 3.1?
c) is there a patch?
I *do* need to find a solution to this as soon as possible as this is
quite a large problem.
Thank you.
--
Michael Maxwell <drwho @ xnet.com> | http://www.xnet.com/~drwho/
"American Justice: oxymoron. William J. Clinton: moron."
--M. Maxwell (1999)
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