Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:38:47 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Bill Tillman <btillman99@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Printing via USB Port Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1002261626210.14611@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <487138.6770.qm@web36502.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <487138.6770.qm@web36502.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. ---902635197-271806145-1267227527=:14611 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; format=flowed; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT On Fri, 26 Feb 2010, Bill Tillman wrote: > > Thanks again for your valuable input. I have set up lpd printing on my > old FreeBSD server at least a dozen times and it became a simple > routine to do with apsfilter. Let me see if I can place all my cards > in one place and perhaps we can find the bug. I think I found it. The HL-2040 is a GDI printer, aka winprinter (aka "oh no, one of those", aka "I guess I didn't really want to print that after all"). It won't respond to PCL, unlike the one I looked up first, the HL-2060. Based on http://beej.us/hl2040/: % cd /usr/local/libexec % cp ps2pcl ps2hl1250 Change the line in ps2hl1250 to: /usr/local/bin/gs -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=hl1250 -sOutputFile=- - ^^^^^^ And change the if= line in the printcap to refer to ps2hl1250. (And remember, buying winprinters just encourages them to make more.) -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ---902635197-271806145-1267227527=:14611--
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