From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 12 22:38:08 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA08722 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 12 Mar 1997 22:38:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from proxy2.ba.best.com (root@proxy2.ba.best.com [206.184.139.13]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA08705; Wed, 12 Mar 1997 22:38:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from bsampley.vip.best.com (bsampley.vip.best.com [206.184.160.196]) by proxy2.ba.best.com (8.8.5/8.8.3) with SMTP id WAA09585; Wed, 12 Mar 1997 22:32:20 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 22:31:09 -0800 (PST) From: Burton Sampley To: James FitzGibbon cc: questions@FreeBSD.org, hardware@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Poscript on an Brother HL760 ? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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)