On 7/16/19 4:13 AM, Jonathan Drews wrote:
On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 08:06:20AM +0000, Roderick wrote: At this point, I am going to look for another printer that is more OpenBSD friendly. My Desjet 6940 is pretty old and the cartridges cost a lot (> USD $120.00) Kind regards, Jonathan
I may just be a luddite, but after wasting multiple days messing around with cups, ghostscript, hplip et al, I decided it was just easier to print everything via postscript. My printing "workflow" is quite rudimentary, but it has yet to fail me. I set up a simple lpd server on my desktop pointing to my Brother printer, from which I can print raw .txt, pdf or postscript files directly via lpr/lpd. If I find myself needing to print a file that isn't in one of these formats, I simply convert them to that format manually. If I need to print a .doc or .odt file, I just open them in LibreOffice and export them to pdf, which can then be printed via lpr. (As an aside, LibreOffice supports rendering pages to postscript and printing them directly as it seems to detect my lpd setup and offers "Generic Printer" as an option, allowing me to print directly from within LibreOffice.) This solution doesn't offer the convenience of automagically converting arbitrary file formats to PCL or whatever the printer format of the day is, but it works for me without having to have add a ridiculous number of packages and configs.
