From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Wed Aug 2 12:54:09 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2986DD0586 for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2017 12:54:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsam@passap.ru) Received: from forward1o.cmail.yandex.net (forward1o.cmail.yandex.net [IPv6:2a02:6b8:0:1a72::2a1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "forwards.mail.yandex.net", Issuer "Yandex CA" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5C90563F3D for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2017 12:54:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsam@passap.ru) Received: from smtp2o.mail.yandex.net (smtp2o.mail.yandex.net [37.140.190.27]) by forward1o.cmail.yandex.net (Yandex) with ESMTP id C2914216C4 for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2017 15:53:56 +0300 (MSK) Received: from smtp2o.mail.yandex.net (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp2o.mail.yandex.net (Yandex) with ESMTP id 0A72450811C0 for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2017 15:53:54 +0300 (MSK) Received: by smtp2o.mail.yandex.net (nwsmtp/Yandex) with ESMTPSA id SOZLAWI8d6-rrXm3aXq; Wed, 02 Aug 2017 15:53:53 +0300 (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client certificate not present) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=passap.ru; s=mail; t=1501678433; bh=WdNvgNF/9VGiKzdDZLR/0e+XEqo1CZExfYUfxcwFR1M=; h=Subject:To:References:From:Message-ID:Date:In-Reply-To; b=MP586nvlCkB9vYQFktiDxM0QXn3m96G3G2mCQSotQE1/90w0CouzRBmvHLE9b9+q9 qgb1BotF6So2weOoUlFMrB/6I8ROU6Fgjqfqnl0yFK6Ct/e31y86Bqzz65kCFRSbip iyMACa8I/X2wX9gSE+dECrcQZ0jyBg+c68B2v/h0= Authentication-Results: smtp2o.mail.yandex.net; dkim=pass header.i=@passap.ru X-Yandex-Suid-Status: 1 0 Subject: Re: FreeBSD CUPS PPD To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <02b89d54534d4f9dbe44df076e918572.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca> From: Boris Samorodov Message-ID: <4abfc7bd-b0df-da1c-434e-ed4e99760424@passap.ru> Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2017 15:53:53 +0300 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.2.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <02b89d54534d4f9dbe44df076e918572.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2017 12:54:09 -0000 02.08.2017 00:29, James B. Byrne via freebsd-questions пишет: > We have several old Lexmark T632 printers which OpenPrinting.org > describes as 'paperweights'. Notwithstanding OPO's value judgement we > use these things as network printers for a wide variety of computers, > some of which are much older than the printers. One of their uses is > to produce cheques and to replace them for this purpose requires > re-certification of the replacements. So, they are not going anywhere > until they absolutely no longer work. > > Under CentOS-6 we use CUPS -1.4.2 with a PPD for these printers which > was sourced from some forgotten place but which works very well for > us. You may try linux emulation. Here are current packages: --- % pkg search cups-libs linux-c6-cups-libs-1.4.2_8 Common UNIX Printing System libraries linux-c7-cups-libs-1.6.3_3 Common UNIX Printing System libraries --- > On FreeBSD we use CUPS -2.2.3 and the PPD we have works not quite > so well. JFYI, the is a cups-genppdupdate utility at print/gutenprint. I'm not sure that it will DTRT, but seems worth to mention. > It works to the extent that the printers print but we cannot > 'see' their advanced features in the CUPS Browser. There are fields > created in the page display which are likely for this but they are not > populated with options. > > This is a bit esoteric for me. Is there anyone on the list that either > has a working PPD for this model printer that they are willing to > share; or is willing, for a fee, to revise the PPD we already have so > that it works with FreeBSD? -- WBR, Boris Samorodov (bsam) FreeBSD Committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve