On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 01:58:58AM -0700, Predrag Punosevac wrote: > Dear All, > > I would like to bring to your attention that the driver hl1250 is missing > from the > Ghostscript 8.60. It has been removed since Ghostscript 6.xx. > The driver happens to support a slue of the brand new Brother monochromatic > laser printers > See: > > http://solutions.brother.com/linux/sol/printer/linux/developers.html > > and should be compiled into Ghostscript 8.xx or 7.xx for those who must use > 7.xx. > This is a well documented problem and the solution is very simple > > http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_driver.cgi?driver=hl1250 > > Nobody is listed as a port maintainer so I am brining the issue before the > port list. > I am typing this message from the 4.2 Release so I have not checked the > following: > > 1. The ghostscript port should be updated to 8.61 which is minor new > release that fixes bugs. > > 2. I am not sure that the above driver is put back into the 8.61 but I > really doubt. > > > > Most Kind Regards to Everyone, > > Predrag Punosevac > > >
Can you be a little more specific? I'm using that driver and it works just fine... zinc:root# pkg_info | grep ghostscript ghostscript-8.60-a4-no_x11 GNU PostScript interpreter ghostscript-fonts-8.11p0 35 standard PostScript fonts with Adobe name aliases zinc:root# grep hl1250 /etc/printwrapper/pw a2ps -q -1 -M A4 --border no -B -l 111 -Z --ppd=level2 -o /dev/stdout | gs -q -sDEVICE=hl1250 -sOutputFile=/dev/stdout -sPAPERSIZE=a4 -dNOPAUSE -dSAFER -r600x600 /dev/stdin
