-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
On Feb 18 Eric Schuele spake forth boldly:
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.
I don't have a fix to your apsfilter issue, but if you you are interested in
another possible printing solution... try:
http://www.lanside.net/article.php?story=20031007161002250
It works well for me. And is simple to setup.
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
--
Regards,
Eric
Thanks. Got it installed but couldn't get it to work. Ran into
some real problems with what it did regarding my old Star 2410
dot-matrix printer. I shouldn't have fooled with that to begin
with. I had tried to set the old Star up with CUPS, but there
was no mention of a driver for it, or even the brand of printer.
I know some of the Epson drivers may work with it, but in the
meantime, I kept getting something sent to that printer, even
after I'd removed it from printcap & even rebooted. I fooled around
with the files I could find in /var/spool & downward, moved some
into a backup directory until I could get the old printer to
behave, & then started putting the files back. Afterward, cups
could no longer communicate with anything. I tried doing a
deinstall & reinstall, but the problem persisted. So, it's all
gone now, uninstalled. Will try again later with the other
solution I received in another post. Thanks for trying to help.
I think I've been eaten up by the dumbass in this issue. :)
I know others have trouble too, sometimes, setting up printing,
but I almost screwed my system up, just to print to a damned
winblows puter! :)
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)
iD8DBQFD+bUAy0Ty5RZE55oRAtVDAJ9w+r5DA5t2usGFMl7gWyazuLMJmQCfQhQa
5BO7cQZd4FHMUpV6eHyBycI=
=ql/x
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
_______________________________________________
[email protected] mailing list
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions
To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
