On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 11:09 +0000, Denny White wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > I read the article at Onlamp about printing for the impatient. > Installed apsfilter and samba on my old hp netserver so I'd > be able to print to an hp 722c deskjet printer connected to > an xp box. Gimp-print was also installed. Ghostscript was > already installed. I ran /usr/local/share/apsfilter/./SETUP > & thought I had it whipped. That's where the fun started. > Apparently I've missed something along the way, since the > print job never gets sent to the xp box. I also found out > at linuxprinting.org that the recommended hp 722c driver > is pnm2ppa. There was only one section in the install script > that mentioned that driver, 10) PPA printer, so I chose that. > It plugs it into the setup, but when I try to print a test > page, I get ERROR: additional filter 'pnm2ppa' not found. > I found the driver at linuxprinting.org & downloaded it. > How do I go about using it? Is there a way to compile it > into ghostscript? I have ghostscript-gnu-nox11-7.07_14 & > the apsfilter setup script found it & didn't complain. > Do I need to install another more complete version? I know > if I install ghostscript-afpl, I'll also have to recompile > & reinstall apsfilter with the proper make options. When > I choose the more generic just plain deskjet printer driver, > the script accepts it, and when I try to print a test page, > there's no complaining about the driver like when I try the > ppa driver. Test page is created, supposedly sent to the > xp printer with even a speed, average around 950 kb/s, but > I see where it only goes to stdin. I'm definitely not a > programmer, but another filter, ghostscript, something, has > to relay it to stdout, is that correct? > So, I could use some pointers on this. If anyone interested > in answering needs more info, I'll be glad to plug it in to > a reply. Like smb.conf, apsfilterrc, & so forth. Thanks. > Denny White > > GnuPG key : 0x1644E79A | http://wwwkeys.nl.pgp.net > Fingerprint: D0A9 AD44 1F10 E09E 0E67 EC25 CB44 F2E5 1644 E79A > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (OpenBSD) > > iD8DBQFD9a7dy0Ty5RZE55oRAg/8AKCaidZVu40OrIvmGeLm/Zw40RDAqgCaAggH > YmKpizvD6o7ihgZM8MmQKn0= > =wm8n > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
This combination worked fine for me. ------------------------------------------------------------- # Printcap file: Added 2005-04-25 based on pnm2ppa suggestions. lp|ascii|unix:\ :lp=/dev/lpt0:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd:\ :if=/home/mike/bin/pnm2ppa-filter:\ :mx#0:\ :sh: ------------------------------------------------------------- #!/bin/sh # printcap-filter TMP=/tmp/pnm2ppa.tmp cat >$TMP ch1=`head -1 $TMP | cut -c 1` if [ "$ch1" = '%' ] then cat $TMP | /usr/local/bin/gs -sDEVICE=ppmraw -q -dNOPAUSE -r600 \ -sOutputFile=- - | \ /usr/local/bin/pnm2ppa -i - -o - else cat $TMP | /usr/local/bin/enscript -B -q -p - | \ /usr/local/bin/gs -sDEVICE=ppmraw -q -dNOPAUSE -r600 \ -sOutputFile=- - | \ /usr/local/bin/pnm2ppa -i - -o - fi rm $TMP -- Mike Jeays http://ca.geocities.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"