John Johnson wrote:
>
> I'm trying to properly configure printing on my
> FreeBSD 4.1 box. I thought I had worked out all the
> kinks (thanks, Patrick, for all of your tips to
> date!), but I've discovered this evening that I can't
> print from within a browser (I have both Netscape and
> Amaya installed). I can print from other applications
> from within XFree86; KDE's simple text editor prints
> text files just fine.
>
> I've also installed Ghostscript, but am unsure of how
> to use it. Sorry for all the questions, but with
> everyone's help I'm inching ever closer to
> self-sufficiency (I'm shooting for 2010)...
>
> I've tried
>
> :ifhp=model=hp2100
>
> as well as several other models, including the HP LJ 4
> series, several of the gs variants, and gs_ljet4, to
> no avail. Depending on which model I use, I either get
> a printer error or no error at all. hp2100 produces
> the error. If I comment out the :ifhp and :filter
> lines, I get stairstep output from within Netscape:
>
> %!PS-Adobe-2.0
> %%Creator: Thot
> %% Delete the last nwpage line command...
>
> I know there's probably on online reference for this
> somewhere, but I for the life of me can't find it.
>
> As always, thanks to everyone for their help.
>
> John
I've the same problem with my HP LaserJet 4L...
Standard entry doesn't convert Postscript to PCL.
-----------------------------------------
--- /etc/ifhp.conf.old Fri Aug 18 00:00:14 2000
+++ /etc/ifhp.conf Fri Aug 18 00:03:33 2000
@@ -1459,11 +1459,31 @@
# PRINTER % - HP LaserJet 4 Family, HP LaserJet {/hp(.*)/$1/}
-[ hp4l hp5l hp6l hp1100 ]
+[ hp5l hp6l hp1100 ]
pjl_except=[
EOJ JOB OPMSG RDYMSG STMSG
FSAPPEND FSDIRLIST FSQUERY FSUPLOAD FSDELETE FSDOWNLOAD FSINIT
FSMKDIR
]
+
+
+# PRINTER % - Hp LaserJet 4L, PCL only
+[ hp4l ]
+status@
+pjl@
+pcl
+ps@
+text@
+gs_device=laserjet
+gs_options=-r300x300
+file_output_match = [
+ *pcl* pcl
+ *text* pcl
+# postscript to PCL conversion
+ *postscript* pcl \%s{gs_converter}
+ *gzip_compressed* filter \%s{gzip_decompress}
+ ]
+
+
# PRINTER % - HP LaserJet {/hp(.*)/$1/}
[ hp4ml hp5p hp5mp hp6p hp6mp ]
-----------------------------------------
...now it works fine.
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