Hello,
I'm now and than in the need of discussing CUPS / Postscript related
printing questions. In the past there was www.cups.org with a CUPS
related bug tracking system and user forums around CUPS. It seems that
the server crashed some time ago and it's unknown when (and how) it will
Hello to the list,
I made a fresh install of FreeBSD 9.1 on a 74bit system and I am trying to
install everything I need using ports and not packages. However, when I try
to install cups (version 1.5.4), even in the default configuration, I
receive the following build errors:
echo Linking
On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 20:56:59 +0200, lokada...@gmx.de wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> How can i disable cups, docbook and other ports from compiling after
> port update?
> I have no printer and no use of cups or docbook.
If you don't mind the _time_ required for building those ports
(
Hi all,
How can i disable cups, docbook and other ports from compiling after
port update?
I have no printer and no use of cups or docbook.
*Sorry for my english*
Greetings
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Leslie Jensen writes:
> Hi Markus.
>
> If you do a search in the archives you'll see that some of us have
> printing problems with Firefox. Some even suspect that printing in Firefox
> is broken.
>
> I myself has not been able to solve my specific printing problems which
> include both Fi
> Hi all,
>
> I'm struggling with a speed issue when trying to print stuff from
> firefox (10.0.2,1). I've set up cups (meta package 1.5.2) on my box
> which uses a Lexmark E360dn printer via ethernet. The printer has a
> postscript emulation which is set as the
Hi all,
I'm struggling with a speed issue when trying to print stuff from
firefox (10.0.2,1). I've set up cups (meta package 1.5.2) on my box
which uses a Lexmark E360dn printer via ethernet. The printer has a
postscript emulation which is set as the default (as opposed to
PCL). I
r size and orientation, color
or B&W etc.
They did, then they got bought by Apple...
I should make myself more familiar with the command line
tool. Still I hope I won't need CUPS anytime soon. :-)
No, please don't blame CUPS, it is earnestly trying to cope with
everythi
On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 22:24:32 +0100
Polytropon articulated:
> Using a Linksys Wireless-G WPS54GU2 print server (WLAN, LAN,
> USB, parallel) - following Jerry's suggestion - I'll try tp
> get rid of the USB cable at the next step.
I spoke to an associate yesterday who claims he used a USB to Ethern
d line
tool. Still I hope I won't need CUPS anytime soon. :-)
> No, please don't blame CUPS, it is earnestly trying to cope with
> everything thrown at him (stupid printers, gnome DBus autoconfig, Apple
> Mac OSX and so on), and it is doing a fairly good job at it.
I know tha
On 26/02/2012 18:46, Polytropon wrote:
On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 02:42:08 +0100, Jerome Herman wrote:
You did nothing wrong, on the contrary. You now have a prefectly working
printer. You just need to tell cups it exists.
Since
# foo2qpdl-wrapper -p 2 -c cupstest.ps> cupstest.
On Sun, 26 Feb 2012, Polytropon wrote:
On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 10:08:52 +1000, Da Rock wrote:
I don't know that I can add anything to the cups discussion here, but I
understand you'd rather use lpr anyway. You are aware that the printer
will only speak splix the samsung universal drive
On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 23:03:58 +0100
Polytropon articulated:
> I _never_ would buy a USB printer, and I would also never
> buy something that doesn't talk PS (or at least PCL).
Both "PS" and to a lesser extent "PCL" are becoming passé. You might
want to seriously consider "PDF". The better Brother
On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 10:08:52 +1000, Da Rock wrote:
> I don't know that I can add anything to the cups discussion here, but I
> understand you'd rather use lpr anyway. You are aware that the printer
> will only speak splix the samsung universal driver language? So any
> c
On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 02:42:08 +0100, Jerome Herman wrote:
> You did nothing wrong, on the contrary. You now have a prefectly working
> printer. You just need to tell cups it exists.
> Since
>
> # foo2qpdl-wrapper -p 2 -c cupstest.ps> cupstest.xqx
> # cat cups
On 25/02/2012 22:14, Polytropon wrote:
I have a problem installing a Samsung CLX-2160 color
laser printer using CUPS. In the http://localhost:631
web-based configuration, none of the methods that are
supposed to be used for installing a printer works.
The "Add Printer" button lea
On 02/26/12 08:14, Polytropon wrote:
On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 23:07:36 +0100, C. P. Ghost wrote:
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 10:14 PM, Polytropon wrote:
I have a problem installing a Samsung CLX-2160 color
laser printer using CUPS. In the http://localhost:631
web-based configuration, none of the
On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 23:07:36 +0100, C. P. Ghost wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 10:14 PM, Polytropon wrote:
> > I have a problem installing a Samsung CLX-2160 color
> > laser printer using CUPS. In the http://localhost:631
> > web-based configuration, none of the methods tha
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 10:14 PM, Polytropon wrote:
> I have a problem installing a Samsung CLX-2160 color
> laser printer using CUPS. In the http://localhost:631
> web-based configuration, none of the methods that are
> supposed to be used for installing a printer works.
(... snip
On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 16:55:36 -0500, Jerry wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 22:14:33 +0100
> Polytropon articulated:
>
> > I have a problem installing a Samsung CLX-2160 color
> > laser printer using CUPS. In the http://localhost:631
> > web-based configuration, n
On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 15:26:29 -0600, Antonio Olivares wrote:
> Hope this can help:
>
> http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=27666
>
> There are many things that could be interfering?
Done as explained in the thread. Even
# cp /usr/local/share/examples/cups/ulpt-
On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 22:14:33 +0100
Polytropon articulated:
> I have a problem installing a Samsung CLX-2160 color
> laser printer using CUPS. In the http://localhost:631
> web-based configuration, none of the methods that are
> supposed to be used for installing a printer works.
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 3:14 PM, Polytropon wrote:
> I have a problem installing a Samsung CLX-2160 color
> laser printer using CUPS. In the http://localhost:631
> web-based configuration, none of the methods that are
> supposed to be used for installing a printer works.
>
>
I have a problem installing a Samsung CLX-2160 color
laser printer using CUPS. In the http://localhost:631
web-based configuration, none of the methods that are
supposed to be used for installing a printer works.
The "Add Printer" button leads to this:
A
On Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:23:19 +0100
Polytropon wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 23:46:52 +0100, Christopher J. Ruwe wrote:
> > Is there any documentation available on how to retrieve old ports
> > from the cvs-attic? I just don't know how, so that I could test my
> > assumpt
On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 23:46:52 +0100, Christopher J. Ruwe wrote:
> Is there any documentation available on how to retrieve old ports from
> the cvs-attic? I just don't know how, so that I could test my assumption
> that CUPS 1.4.x should be working for my setup.
There
I am trying to get CUPS 1.5.2 from ports working with my printer and I
encounter a problem exactly like a bug described in
http://www.cups.org/str.php?L4008, albeit with a Kyocera 1030-D instead of
a kyocera 2000. In essence, CUPS 1.5.+ is sending corrupted data to some
printers and the remedies
On 02/18/12 00:22, Jerry wrote:
On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:14:47 +0100
Polytropon articulated:
Think about that:
% netcat 192.168.123.456< /tmp/printing.pdf
I can do either:
nc 192.168.1.100 9100< /tmp/print.pdf
or nc 192.168.1.100 9100< /tmp/print.ps
right now without
hat. They're normally an external computer system
designed to do just that: act as a print server (sometimes a bit like
CUPS with a web interface) and you can store, hold, print jobs. Graphics
organisations still use them, but since processors are so fast these
days they don't always
On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:14:47 +0100
Polytropon articulated:
> Think about that:
>
> % netcat 192.168.123.456 < /tmp/printing.pdf
I can do either:
nc 192.168.1.100 9100 < /tmp/print.pdf
or nc 192.168.1.100 9100 < /tmp/print.ps
right now without any problems.
If you looked at
t out that PS still seems to be the
format that _applications_ use as output format for printing.
Even though especially office applications (such as Abiword
or LibreOffice) have a built-in PDF file generator, the printing
output that is sent to the printing subsystem (lpr, CUPS, whatever)
is in PS
On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 23:33:33 +1000, Da Rock wrote:
> PDF is not exactly PS, but it does use a subset of the instructions.
That's correct, but both formats share essential parts of
functionality. Conversion between them is relatively easy.
> The other thing you will notice is that its mostly on
the
format that _applications_ use as output format for printing.
Even though especially office applications (such as Abiword
or LibreOffice) have a built-in PDF file generator, the printing
output that is sent to the printing subsystem (lpr, CUPS, whatever)
is in PS format and gets converted to what t
s_ use as output format for printing.
Even though especially office applications (such as Abiword
or LibreOffice) have a built-in PDF file generator, the printing
output that is sent to the printing subsystem (lpr, CUPS, whatever)
is in PS format and gets converted to what the printer needs
by the prope
imilarities
and shared root with FreeBSD, and the origin of cups (at least the
biggest backer).
I don't know the value of creating a wrapper for Windows drivers given
they use PCL mostly anyway. Main advantage I'd suppose is in GDI drivers...
As a printer specialist I stay well
On Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:25:06 +1000
Da Rock articulated:
> The biggest problem comes with using many interpreters of a single
> language. Thankfully pcl works on the majority of printers (network),
> and is practically a standard in the enterprise world, so you're
> still not marooned with a pape
On 02/12/12 23:33, Jerry wrote:
On Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:17:29 +0100
Polytropon articulated:
On Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:21:59 +0100, Ouyang Xueyu wrote:
Hello,
I have Freebsd 8.2 and CUPS installed and try to print on my
Brother MFC 7840W printer. The printer is accessible by a static IP
address
On Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:17:29 +0100
Polytropon articulated:
> On Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:21:59 +0100, Ouyang Xueyu wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have Freebsd 8.2 and CUPS installed and try to print on my
> > Brother MFC 7840W printer. The printer is accessible by a static IP
On Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:21:59 +0100, Ouyang Xueyu wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have Freebsd 8.2 and CUPS installed and try to print on my Brother
> MFC 7840W printer. The printer is accessible by a static IP address, is
> configured in CUPS but everytime I only get blank pages when I
On Tue, 7 Feb 2012, Da Rock wrote:
I was wondering if this "patch", whatever the Ubuntu fellows patched,
couldn't be introduced to FreeBSD's CUPS port.
Well, sorry about my impatience, but I'm floating like a dead man in the
water, since I have to prepare print
updating cups to revision
1.5.0 (this is the most recent port version and I recently
updated/recompiled the port and dependencies for all parts of CUPS
either with CLANG and GCC 4.2.1), I get massive problems accessing
printers on the network.
Most HP printers accept a print job, but after accepting
We use a bunch of HP and Xerox printers across our network, all capable
of being accessed via network over IPP protocoall (so they claim).
Printing worked for me flawless on FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE, 9.0-CURRENT, now
9.0-STABLE on all boxes in question. Since updating cups to revision
1.5.0 (this is
On 02/06/12 22:21, Jerry wrote:
On Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:21:59 +0100
Ouyang Xueyu articulated:
Hello,
I have Freebsd 8.2 and CUPS installed and try to print on my Brother
MFC 7840W printer. The printer is accessible by a static IP address,
is configured in CUPS but everytime I only get blank
On Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:21:59 +0100
Ouyang Xueyu articulated:
> Hello,
>
> I have Freebsd 8.2 and CUPS installed and try to print on my Brother
> MFC 7840W printer. The printer is accessible by a static IP address,
> is configured in CUPS but everytime I only get blank pages when
On 02/06/12 06:21, Ouyang Xueyu wrote:
Hello,
I have Freebsd 8.2 and CUPS installed and try to print on my Brother
MFC 7840W printer. The printer is accessible by a static IP address,
is configured in CUPS but everytime I only get blank pages when I'm
trying to print.
Does anybody k
Hello,
I have Freebsd 8.2 and CUPS installed and try to print on my Brother
MFC 7840W printer. The printer is accessible by a static IP address, is
configured in CUPS but everytime I only get blank pages when I'm trying
to print.
Does anybody know a solution for this behaviou
Em Qui, 2011-12-08 às 10:40 -0600, Ryan Coleman escreveu:
> I have a printer that doesn't support IPP. The leasing agency wants to charge
> me $1400 to "install" the Postcript driver on it but I'm looking at another
> solution, if possible: CUPS.
>
> I hav
>-Original Message-
>From: Ryan Coleman [mailto:edi...@d3photography.com]
>Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2011 9:24 AM
>To: Patrick Mahan
>Cc: FreeBSD Questions
>Subject: Re: CUPS and IPP/JD/LPD
>
>Definitely Postscript.
>
With CUPS, I'm don't remember
>-Original Message-
>From: Ryan Coleman [mailto:edi...@d3photography.com]
>Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2011 9:03 AM
>To: Patrick Mahan
>Cc: FreeBSD Questions
>Subject: Re: CUPS and IPP/JD/LPD
>
>I keep getting garbage text when I connect to my Lanier here at work.
>> To: FreeBSD Questions
>> Subject: CUPS and IPP/JD/LPD
>>
>> I have a printer that doesn't support IPP. The leasing agency wants to
>> charge me $1400 to "install" the Postcript driver on it but I'm looking at
>> another solution, if possib
>-Original Message-
>From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-
>questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Ryan Coleman
>Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2011 8:41 AM
>To: FreeBSD Questions
>Subject: CUPS and IPP/JD/LPD
>
>I have a printer that doesn&#x
gt;> From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-
>> questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Ryan Coleman
>> Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2011 8:41 AM
>> To: FreeBSD Questions
>> Subject: CUPS and IPP/JD/LPD
>>
>> I have a printer that doesn'
I have a printer that doesn't support IPP. The leasing agency wants to charge
me $1400 to "install" the Postcript driver on it but I'm looking at another
solution, if possible: CUPS.
I have a MacBook and we have a number of iOS devices around the office here
that people w
I decided to install FreeBSD 9.0 RC-2. I like to have KDE4 as I have now and
my question is: Do I need to have in the make.conf still
QT4_OPTIONS=CUPS
Thank you.
Mitja
http://jpgmag.com/people/lumiwa
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Hey everyone,
I hope this is FreeBSD-specific enough for this list... Ever since
moving to FreeBSD, I haven't been able to use color on my color
laserjet. I've tried selecting just about every color laserjet model
from the web interface to CUPS that I can think of, and the
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 386, Issue 9, Message: 5
On Sat, 29 Oct 2011 07:28:24 -0400 Jerry wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 17:27:03 -0500 (CDT)
> Robert Bonomi articulated:
>
> > Your insistance on trying to impose -your- standards on the world, and
> > denying them the 'freedom of choi
On Sun, 30 Oct 2011 09:48:08 -0400, Jerry wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Oct 2011 13:59:58 +0100
> C. P. Ghost articulated:
>
> > On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Jerry wrote:
> > > The biggest loser in this is FreeBSD itself. Virtually any new PC or
> > > laptop, with the exception of the bargain basement
On Sun, 30 Oct 2011 13:59:58 +0100
C. P. Ghost articulated:
> On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Jerry wrote:
> > The biggest loser in this is FreeBSD itself. Virtually any new PC or
> > laptop, with the exception of the bargain basement brands, and even
> > some of them are exempt, now come with "
On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Jerry wrote:
> The biggest loser in this is FreeBSD itself. Virtually any new PC or
> laptop, with the exception of the bargain basement brands, and even
> some of them are exempt, now come with "N" protocol wireless devices.
Instead of devoting so much time and e
On Sun, 30 Oct 2011 08:25:11 +
Frank Shute articulated:
> On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 07:28:24AM -0400, Jerry wrote:
> >
> > You cannot even get a decent "N - protocol" wireless device, or even
> > a not so decent one for that matter, to work on FreeBSD while the
> > rest of the world has had work
On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 07:28:24AM -0400, Jerry wrote:
>
> You cannot even get a decent "N - protocol" wireless device, or even
> a not so decent one for that matter, to work on FreeBSD while the
> rest of the world has had working solutions for 5 years. What the
> hell are they waiting for -- the
> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Sat Oct 29 06:29:33 2011
> Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2011 07:28:24 -0400
> From: Jerry
> To: FreeBSD
> Subject: Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS
>
> On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 17:27:03 -0500 (CDT)
> Robert Bonomi articulated:
>
&g
While political and economic issues are important, most of them are not
directly relevant to the freebsd-questions mailing list, and reduce the
usefulness of the list in helping people get answers to questions about
FreeBSD.
Please continue such subjects somewhere else, like private email or
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 17:27:03 -0500 (CDT)
Robert Bonomi articulated:
> Your insistance on trying to impose -your- standards on the world, and
> denying them the 'freedom of choice' to make their own decisions on
> the matter -- e.g. "anyone offering such products should be to some
> degree held leg
> > Then I have to portupgrade hplip and dependencies (portupgrade
> > -r ...) or the portmaster equivalent.
> Welcome to the wonderful world of printing on FreeBSD. By the way, is
> the time you are investing in this venture considered billable hours or
> just self-flagellation?
> --
> Jerry ?
folks, other than just me.
>
> I'm impatient by nature, and I don't like CUPS. (I would say that I hate
> it, but I don't actually feel that strongly.)
>
> I have two personal workstations. When I say "personal" I mean it. I'm
> the only one who ever
On Sat, 29 Oct 2011 00:44:59 +0200, Polytropon wrote
>
> On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 17:27:03 -0500 (CDT), Robert Bonomi wrote:
> > Your insistance on trying to impose -your- standards on the world, and
> > denying them the 'freedom of choice' to make their own decisions on the
> > matter -- e.g. "anyon
Warren Block wrote:
> A better example would be a web browser or word processor. The
> program stops responding to further input until the printer has
> received the entire print job. This bothered people enough that
> they came up with lpd/lpr ...
Back when lpr/lpd were first written, it was
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 17:27:03 -0500 (CDT), Robert Bonomi wrote:
> Your insistance on trying to impose -your- standards on the world, and
> denying them the 'freedom of choice' to make their own decisions on the
> matter -- e.g. "anyone offering such products should be to some degree
> held legally
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 17:54:01 -0400
Jerry wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:35:20 -0500 (CDT)
> Robert Bonomi articulated:
>
> >
> > On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:04:19 -0400, Jerry
> > pontificated:
> > >
> > > I buy my cars from known corporations and not the local chop-shop.
> > > My drugs come form
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 17:54:01 -0400 Jerry supersciliously
ponftificated:
>
> On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:35:20 -0500 (CDT)
> Robert Bonomi articulated:
>
> >
> > On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:04:19 -0400, Jerry
> > pontificated:
> > >
> > > I buy my cars from known corporations and not the local chop-shop.
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 17:54:01 -0400, Jerry wrote:
> Remember the adage: "You get what you pay for."
That's often true - especially in the home consumer
market you mostly get crap, this is what you pay for.
But in some cases, you can't control _what_ you get
just per payment, means: Just because it
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:17:46 -0500 (CDT)
Robert Bonomi articulated:
> P.S. If _anybody_ wants to accuse me of 'name-calling', note well
> that Jerry started it, and without any provocation.
"Mommy.mommy, come quick. The boy next door is picking on me."
--
Jerry ✌
jerry+f...@seibercom.net
Discl
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:35:20 -0500 (CDT)
Robert Bonomi articulated:
>
> On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:04:19 -0400, Jerry
> pontificated:
> >
> > I buy my cars from known corporations and not the local chop-shop.
> > My drugs come form known pharmaceutical corporations and not the
> > local pusher. I li
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:04:19 -0400, Jerry pontificated:
>
> I buy my cars from known corporations and not the local chop-shop. My
> drugs come form known pharmaceutical corporations and not the local
> pusher. I like my device specific codes to come from those best able to
> supply them, the OEM.
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:04:19 -0400, Jerry wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 21:12:54 +0200
> Polytropon articulated:
>
> > So let me make this more clear: IF the hardware manufacturer
> > wants to allow developers to write drivers for their hardware
> > for free, THEN everything they'd have to do is to
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 13:14:26 -0700
Chuck Swiger articulated:
> On Oct 28, 2011, at 1:04 PM, Jerry wrote:
> > Check out "MOVED" in the ports. There are numerous applications that
> > are just abandoned or discontinued. If something breaks I want
> > someone to contact. I realize that is not the Ope
On Oct 28, 2011, at 1:04 PM, Jerry wrote:
> Check out "MOVED" in the ports. There are numerous applications that
> are just abandoned or discontinued. If something breaks I want someone
> to contact. I realize that is not the Open Source way however. The
> thought of someone actually being responsi
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 21:12:54 +0200
Polytropon articulated:
> So let me make this more clear: IF the hardware manufacturer
> wants to allow developers to write drivers for their hardware
> for free, THEN everything they'd have to do is to publish the
> control codes for the sheet feeder and the ink
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 06:36:20 -0400, Jerry wrote:
> Welcome to the wonderful world of printing on FreeBSD. By the way, is
> the time you are investing in this venture considered billable hours or
> just self-flagellation?
Maybe you can also ask the other way round:
BEFORE I buy a product, I ask: D
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 00:53:44 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wrote:
> A better example would be a web browser or word processor. The program
> stops responding to further input until the printer has received the
> entire print job. This bothered people enough that they came up with
> lpd/lpr, which
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011, Daniel Feenberg wrote:
On Thu, 27 Oct 2011, Mark Felder wrote:
You've just made me a happy, happy user. I always wondered what it would
take to get rid of CUPS, and today I've done it. Finally my print jobs are
instantaneous here at work instead of being a myst
On Thu, 27 Oct 2011, Mark Felder wrote:
You've just made me a happy, happy user. I always wondered what it would
take to get rid of CUPS, and today I've done it. Finally my print jobs
are instantaneous here at work instead of being a mystery. Can't wait to
go home and do t
On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 19:09:05 -0500 (CDT)
Robert Bonomi articulated:
> > From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Thu Oct 27 16:46:51 2011
> > Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 17:46:21 -0400
> > From: Jerry
> > To: FreeBSD
> > Subject: Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CU
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 08:08:07 + (GMT)
Thomas Mueller articulated:
> from Mark Felder :
>
> > You've just made me a happy, happy user. I always wondered what it
> > would take to get rid of CUPS, and today I've done it. Finally my
> > print jobs are instantan
from Mark Felder :
> You've just made me a happy, happy user. I always wondered what it would
> take to get rid of CUPS, and today I've done it. Finally my print jobs are
> instantaneous here at work instead of being a mystery. Can't wait to go
> home and do the
On Thu, 27 Oct 2011, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
In message ,
Warren Block wrote:
...
The only thing that worries me about my rather ad-hoc way of setting up
a "personal" printer (as describe above) is that I sort of wonder what
will happen if I ever try to print something when something else
Polytropon wrote:
> Companies that develop printers want money.
> They need to continuously sell printers ...
This seems to be becoming less and less accurate.
It has long been the case that consumer-grade ink-blot printers are
sold below cost -- the money being made by selling ink cartridges.
On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 19:39:17 -0400, Jerry wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 00:52:49 +0200
> Polytropon articulated:
>
> > There isn't much you can invent on a hammer. :-)
>
> Absolutely true. However, as Abraham Maslow said in 1966, "It is
> tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat e
> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Thu Oct 27 16:46:51 2011
> Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 17:46:21 -0400
> From: Jerry
> To: FreeBSD
> Subject: Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS
>
> On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 21:11:32 +0200
> Polytropon articulated:
>
> > O
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 00:52:49 +0200
Polytropon articulated:
> There isn't much you can invent on a hammer. :-)
Absolutely true. However, as Abraham Maslow said in 1966, "It is
tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as
if it were a nail."
This sort of tunnel vision, a
that turns you on} agree to one uniform method
> of implementing printer drivers and then let the manufacturers
> implement it on their end.
I would _LOVE_ that to happen! You can't imagine how
often I'm claiming that the UNIX and Linux world should
be the first one to introduce a r
>>I'm not a huge fan of CUPS, but at this point it's the best of a bad
>>lot. I find the queueing useful, since I often print documents long
>>enough that I don't want to wait.
>
>I don't quite understand the issue you are raising john.
$ lpr foo
You've just made me a happy, happy user. I always wondered what it would
take to get rid of CUPS, and today I've done it. Finally my print jobs are
instantaneous here at work instead of being a mystery. Can't wait to go
home and do the same with my
hy
which then requires me to attempt to manually modify the files to point
to the right location, etcetera. I still have not gotten it to work.
This is with only one driver on one PC. I can easily see why any
manufacturer would not want to be bothered with this bullshit.
Microsoft has used the same
In message ,
Warren Block wrote:
>...
>> The only thing that worries me about my rather ad-hoc way of setting up
>> a "personal" printer (as describe above) is that I sort of wonder what
>> will happen if I ever try to print something when something else is
>> currently printing.
>
>There's als
In message <20111027143609.60335.qm...@joyce.lan>, you wrote:
>I'm not a huge fan of CUPS, but at this point it's the best of a bad
>lot. I find the queueing useful, since I often print documents long
>enough that I don't want to wait.
I don't quite unders
x man and said that he felt my pain. He also informed me that while
> it had been discussed from time to time, it was always felt that it
> would be a lose-lose situation. They do supply drivers for Linux and
> Debian but that is about it. He stated that it was felt that the cost
> of wr
On Oct 27, 2011, at 10:39 AM, Jerry wrote:
> Printing under MS Windows is a breeze. The *nix community has never
> gotten printing up to that lever.
Of course Unix has had functional printing; the issue is mostly dumb printers
which can't accept PostScript or at least PCL, and need an OS-specific
Quoth Ronald F. Guilmette on Thursday, 27 October 2011:
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> printer='/dev/ulpt0'
>
> if [ $# = 0 ]; then
> cat | /usr/local/libexec/psif > $printer
> else
> for arg in $* ; do
> cat $arg | /usr/loca
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