Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 10:32:38 -0500 From: "Victor R. Cardona" <vcardona@home.com> To: Dave Leimbach <dleimbac@earthlink.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Brother HL-1240 laser printer Message-ID: <20010429103238.A15306@marx.alton1.il.home.com> In-Reply-To: <200104291333.GAA02934@snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net>; from dleimbac@earthlink.net on Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 08:35:22AM -0500 References: <200104291333.GAA02934@snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net>
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On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 08:35:22AM -0500, Dave Leimbach wrote:
> I have been trying to get my Brother HL-1240 laser printer working in
> FreeBSD.
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> I have tried APSFILTER and the docs I see on the web say to use the
> laserjet ghostscript driver. This is USB printer and when I try to print
> the testpage my machine resets itself.
>
> This is clearly bad behavior.
>
> I have downloaded ghostscript 7.0 and am going to try it a little later
> today.
>
> Can anyone help me? I'd hate to have to build a small linux machine as my
> printserver....
I have a parrellel port version of that printer. I use apsfilter to get
it to work. I use the ljet2p driver. Unfortunately, I am not sure how
you would go about getting a usb printer to work.
- v
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