Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2009 19:01:02 -0500 From: Alex Goncharov <alex-goncharov@comcast.net> To: Harald Weis <hawei@free.fr> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Samsung SCX-4200 printer Message-ID: <E1LJzNW-000OQZ-K4@daland.home> In-Reply-To: <20090105232354.GA85619@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> (message from Luigi Rizzo on Tue, 6 Jan 2009 00:23:54 %2B0100) References: <20090104221422.GA3114@pollux2.free.local.net> <20090105173635.575e32ff.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> <20090105164403.GE3756@trusted-logic.com> <20090105222623.GA52838@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <20090105232354.GA85619@onelab2.iet.unipi.it>
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On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 11:26:23PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: > On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 05:44:03PM +0100, Erwan David wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 05:36:35PM CET, Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> said: > > > On Sun, 04 Jan 2009 23:14:22 +0100 > > > Harald Weis <hawei@free.fr> wrote: > > > > > > > Is there a way to install the SCX-4200 printer on a FreeBSD box ? > > > > The printer is delivered with the install software required for Linux. > > > > And CUPS does not seem to "know" it. > > It is not always sufficient. My Brother DCP-540 CN is said to work > > perfectly, but only with brother binary linux drivers, under linux. I > > did not find any way to make it work under freeBSD. > > This should be a FAQ: do yourself a favor and get a printer that > supports postscript. It will work with little effort with most > UNIX-based program (because they usually support postscript output) and > with most spoolers. Try to install the cupsys, cupsys-bsd, cupsomatic-ppd and foomatic-db ports and take a look at this link: http://forums.linux-foundation.org/read.php?31,302,320,quote=1 -- Alex -- alex-goncharov@comcast.net --
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