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

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