Daniel A. Ramaley wrote:
The last time i had to use a non-postscript printer with OpenBSD i used
foomatic. Since i was not familiar with the software, it was a bit of a
pain to set up. But like most other software on OpenBSD, once i had it
configured properly it worked without any problems. Just curious, why
don't you want to use foomatic?
A matter of personal preference :-)
I haven't tried using cups on OpenBSD, though i have successfully
configured cups on Debian Linux, with commands similar to this:
# gunzip -c /usr/share/ppd/Brother/Brother-HL-1430-hpijs.ppd.gz \
> /tmp/out.ppd
# lpadmin -p lp -E -v /dev/lpt0 -P /tmp/out.ppd -D "Brother HL-1430" \
-L "Local Printer"
# lpoptions -p lp -o page-left=18 -o page-right=18 \
-o page-top=18 -o page-bottom=18 -o cpi=12 -o lpi=7
On my machine there are 3 different PPD files for the Brother HL-1430,
each with one of either hl1250, hpijs, or ljet4 in their name. I'm not
sure which one you actually want but you should be able to find them
online; if not e-mail me privately and i can send them to you (please
note however that using files from random strangers on the internet
poses significant security risks).
Thanks for the offer, I got the right PPD file from linuxprinting.org
Cheers,
Rico
