On Jan 30 19:30:46, Bryan wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 15:51, Sean Kamath <kam...@geekoids.com> wrote:
> > On Jan 30, 2011, at 12:06 PM, patrick keshishian wrote:
> >>> It supports Postscript, and even has it's own lpd running so that you
> >>> can FTP files to it to print.
> >>
> >> You keep saying and thinking that it supports post script. It does
> >> not. Otherwise feeding it a postscript file would print the document,
> >> not the postscript text/source.
> >
> > A really minor nit: The printer *may* support PostScript, but only in a
> > sp34ecific fashion.
> >
>
> Yea, the printer doesn't do "Postscript" (ARRRGGHHH!), but after I
> configured cups, which was not too painful, I've been able to print
> the .ps file, and the .pdf file that I had created earlier. I was
> even able to print the .png that I had in the directory. I printed
> across three pages, but it printed... the only thing that didn't
> print was a .doc that I had, which did not print in kword, but
> libreoffice works just fine.
>
> Honestly, this is leaps and bounds ahead of where I was two weeks ago.
>
> I still want to figure out the lpd, but for now, cups is working fine
> with the ppd supplied by Brother...
With the same PPD file, you should be able to print with lpd.
This is what works for me eith a non-postcript HP printer
(the PPD file coes from one of the foomatic* packages):
lp|HP Color laserJet 2600n:\
:lp=/dev/ulpt0:\
:af=/etc/foomatic/HP-Color_LaserJet_2600n.ppd:\
:if=/usr/local/bin/foomatic-rip:\
:sd=/var/spool/output:\
:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:\
:sh:
