On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 04:49:47AM +0000, Roderick wrote: > > > On Sun, 14 Jul 2019, Adam Thompson wrote: > > > Nearly every printer sold today (including cheap inkjets AND b&w > > printers) have these tracking dots. [...] > > > The absolute highest resolution graphics today are mostly printed using > > ESC/P (if Epson), PCL3 (if HP), or whatever Canon uses (if Canon). [...] > > Thanks for the nice review! I thing the OP was interested in unexpensive > printing. There play some other factors a role: price of toner, price > of drum, if the cartridge contain both or not, if there are other > producers of the cartidge than the producer of the printer, etc. > > Rodrigo >
Folks: Thanks for your helpful replies. I wanted to implement something like this. These are the notes I made for printing on my old OpenBSD computer: 1) Go to http://openprinting.org/printer_list.cgi?make=HP and look for the Deskjet 6940 *.ppd. Download the *.ppd from here: http://openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-DeskJet_6940 2) Install a2ps from packages. pkg_add ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.0/packages/i386/a2ps*.tgz (where the * denotes the appropriate version. 3) pkg_add ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.0/packages/i386/hpijs*.tgz to install the HP print driver 4) Copy HP-DeskJet_6940-hpijs.ppd to /usr/local/sbin/ 5) Modify your /etc/printcap so that it looks like this: lp|HP6940:\ :lp=/dev/ulpt0:\ :af=/usr/local/sbin/HP-DeskJet_6940-hpijs.ppd:\ :if=/usr/local/bin/foomatic-rip:\ :sd=/var/spool/output/lp:\ :lf=/var/spool/output/lp/log:\ :mx#0:\ :sh: This assumes that you are using a USB printer. 6) Go to /var/spool/output # cd /var/spool/output do: #mkdir lp then do: #chown daemon:daemon lp/ as root. 7) As root do: # touch /var/spool/output/lp/log 8) edit /etc/rc.conf by changing the variable lpd_flags=NO to lpd_flags="" 9) Add your hostname to /etc/hosts.lpd. Your entry should look similar to this: # $OpenBSD: hosts.lpd,v 1.2 1996/07/20 00:28:28 deraadt Exp $ # as described in lpd(8), place one legal access hostname per line my.computer.us 10) Reboot the computer and printing should be working. Unfortunately, the package foomatic-rip is no longer available. Once again, thanks for all the helpful advice. Kind Regards, Jonathan
