Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2011 17:41:44 +0100 From: Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh@onetel.com> To: User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: printing to Kyocera FS-1030D Message-ID: <4E397A48.8070600@onetel.com>
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Hi, before I use up too many trees experimenting, could some kind soul tell me how I can get OpenOffice to print to this printer. This is the first time I have tried to get anything printed from FreeBSD. I'm following the handbook. I think the basic setup is ok, I can get text printed using eg # lptest 20 5 | lpr -Plp If I try to print the postscript program given in the handbook %!PS 100 100 moveto 300 300 lineto stroke 310 310 moveto /Helvetica findfont 12 scalefont setfont (Is this thing working?) show showpage # cat <ps-file> |lpr -Plp I get the whole text of the file not just "Is this thing working?". The printer has various emulations, it is set to PCL 6 and I can't change it (not my printer) Printing from OpenOffice just produces screeds of garbage, starting with %!PS so I presume the text of the postscript that OO has produced. The bit I'm stuck on is in section 9.4.1.3 Simulating PostScript on Non PostScript Printers (which I presume is what I need), specifically setting the device. gs -h doesn't show this printer or any Kyocera printer. So either what should I set Device to, or how do I get ghostscript to know about this printer? I'm using 8.1-RELEASE, openoffice.org-3.2.1, ghostscript8-8.71_6 thanks Chris
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