Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 22:31:09 -0800 (PST) From: Burton Sampley <burton@bsampley.vip.best.com> To: James FitzGibbon <james@nexis.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org, hardware@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Poscript on an Brother HL760 ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970312222843.203E-100000@bsampley.vip.best.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970312234251.2974A-100000@nexis.net>
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Try installing apsfilter from the ports collection. I also tried to get the same filter from the FAQ/Handbook to work on a Epson dot-matrix w/o success. Apsfilter handles all the setup for you. Hope this helps. Burton On Wed, 12 Mar 1997, James FitzGibbon wrote: > > Greetings; > > I'd appreciate hearing from anyone who has had any luck getting postcript > output working on a Brother HL-760 printer. > > I can get plain text to output, but postcript (run through the hpif > example from section 7.6 of the handbook) never prints. The printer's > data light, which is supposed to indicate data being received and/or > processed, just blinks in a one-on/one-off pattern. > > I've tried hitting the panel button to induce a formfed without success. > I've tried removing a paralell port ZIP drive that was daisy chained, and > changing my printer port from ECP to EPP in the BIOS. > > Printing works fine in Win95/NT. > > Suggestions are appreciated. > > -- > j. > > --- Brought to you by a 100% Micro$oft free system. You too can disinfect your system at http://www.freebsd.org E-Mail: burton@bsampley.vip.best.com Alternate E-Mail: bsampley@haywire.csuhayward.edu Home Page: http://www.best.com/~bsampley (permanently under construction)
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