Re: Best way to print photos

2006-04-05 Thread Warner Losh
> Of course, if you can print "borderless" on your particular printer > via Windows, then you should have a reasonable expectation of being > able to do that in FreeBSD as well. However, if you regressed your > setup I think you'd find that the hardware is the limiting factor. What you said about

Re: Best way to print photos

2006-04-05 Thread Bob Johnson
The HP 5850 is capable of borderless photo prints. - Bob On 4/3/06, Greg Barniskis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > M. Warner Losh wrote: > > OK. I got bordered photo printing working. I haven't gotten > > borderless printing working, alas. > > > > The key points I learned: > > > > (1) Install pri

Re: Best way to print photos

2006-04-05 Thread Greg Barniskis
M. Warner Losh wrote: OK. I got bordered photo printing working. I haven't gotten borderless printing working, alas. The key points I learned: (1) Install print/cups. (2) Install graphics/hpijs. This filters .ps -> goo the printer groks (3) Install graphics/gimp. This makes .ps files

Re: Best way to print photos

2006-04-05 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Sat, 1 Apr 2006 06:12:01 +0200 (CEST) "P.U.Kruppa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Try something like > # /usr/local/bin/lpr your_image.jpg > If that works we will have to set some links and everything will > be fine. ah yes :) (the thread was, partly, about issues with cups printing not s

Re: Best way to print photos

2006-04-05 Thread Anish Mistry
On Monday 03 April 2006 15:27, M. Warner Losh wrote: > OK. I got bordered photo printing working. I haven't gotten > borderless printing working, alas. > > The key points I learned: > > (1) Install print/cups. > (2) Install graphics/hpijs. This filters .ps -> goo the printer > groks (3) Install

Re: Best way to print photos

2006-04-04 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Norberto Meijome <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : On Mon, 3 Apr 2006 23:10:16 -0700 : Vayu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : : > > : > > Step 6 is just 'sudo rm -f /usr/bin/lp?*'. /usr/bin/lp is mildly : > > useful, and will be recreated. : > : > What do yo

Re: Best way to print photos

2006-04-04 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Vayu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : On Monday 03 April 2006 22:17, M. Warner Losh wrote: : > In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : > Vayu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : > : On Monday 03 April 2006 12:27, M. Warner Losh wrote: : > : > OK. I got bord

Re: Best way to print photos

2006-04-03 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Mon, 3 Apr 2006 23:10:16 -0700 Vayu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Step 6 is just 'sudo rm -f /usr/bin/lp?*'. /usr/bin/lp is mildly > > useful, and will be recreated. > > What do you mean will be recreated? (If it's going to be recreated, > then why delete it?) why not install print

Re: Best way to print photos

2006-04-03 Thread Vayu
On Monday 03 April 2006 22:17, M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Vayu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > : On Monday 03 April 2006 12:27, M. Warner Losh wrote: > : > OK. I got bordered photo printing working. I haven't gotten > : > borderless printing working, alas.

Re: Best way to print photos

2006-04-03 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Vayu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : On Monday 03 April 2006 12:27, M. Warner Losh wrote: : > OK. I got bordered photo printing working. I haven't gotten : > borderless printing working, alas. : > : > The key points I learned: : > : > (1) Install print/

Re: Best way to print photos

2006-04-03 Thread Vayu
On Monday 03 April 2006 12:27, M. Warner Losh wrote: > OK. I got bordered photo printing working. I haven't gotten > borderless printing working, alas. > > The key points I learned: > > (1) Install print/cups. > (2) Install graphics/hpijs. This filters .ps -> goo the printer groks > (3) Insta

Re: Best way to print photos

2006-04-03 Thread Warner Losh
> You have to have a printer that's capable of doing borderless prints. > Most printers will only print to within 1/4" of the page. Try a custom > size paper (increase the size by 1/2"), maybe that will help do it. Windows does borderless printing on this printer, so I know it can do it. Warner

Re: Best way to print photos

2006-04-03 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Monday 03 April 2006 14:27, M. Warner Losh wrote: > OK. I got bordered photo printing working. I haven't gotten > borderless printing working, alas. > > The key points I learned: > > (1) Install print/cups. > (2) Install graphics/hpijs. This filters .ps -> goo the printer groks > (3) Install

Re: Best way to print photos

2006-04-03 Thread M. Warner Losh
OK. I got bordered photo printing working. I haven't gotten borderless printing working, alas. The key points I learned: (1) Install print/cups. (2) Install graphics/hpijs. This filters .ps -> goo the printer groks (3) Install graphics/gimp. This makes .ps files (4) Kill lpr/lpd before

Re: Best way to print photos

2006-03-31 Thread P.U.Kruppa
I didn't catch the complete thread, but perhaps I can help a little bit. On Fri, 31 Mar 2006, M. Warner Losh wrote: : > : > Thanks for the tips. I have these ports installed, but am : > : > tripping over something stupidly basic: what converts the : > : > pict0001.jpg into something that ca

Re: Best way to print photos

2006-03-31 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 11:46:03 -0700 (MST) "M. Warner Losh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > : Are you using cups? Or something else? If you have your printer > working : under cups, then I would think that gimp would print to it. > > I have cups running. I'd have thought that too, so I'm doing > some

Re: Best way to print photos

2006-03-31 Thread John Conover
Bob Johnson writes: > On 3/31/06, M. Warner Losh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > : On Friday 31 March 2006 14:16, Bob Johnson wrote: > > : > > > : > The process works for printing JPEGs from web pages on my laser > > : > printer (although not with HPIJS), and since the HPIJS driver is > > : > suppos

Re: Best way to print photos

2006-03-31 Thread Bob Johnson
On 3/31/06, M. Warner Losh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > "Donald J. O'Neill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > : On Friday 31 March 2006 14:16, Bob Johnson wrote: > : > > : > The process works for printing JPEGs from web pages on my laser > : > printer (alth

Re: Best way to print photos

2006-03-31 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Donald J. O'Neill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : On Friday 31 March 2006 14:16, Bob Johnson wrote: : > : > In principle, an application feeds it to CUPS, CUPS feeds it to : > GhostScript, and GhostScript uses the HPIJS driver to print it. Or : > somethin

Re: Best way to print photos

2006-03-31 Thread Bob Johnson
On 3/31/06, Donald J. O'Neill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 31 March 2006 14:16, Bob Johnson wrote: > > > > [...] > > The process works for printing JPEGs from web pages on my laser > > printer (although not with HPIJS), and since the HPIJS driver is > > supposed to autodetect photo paper

Re: Best way to print photos

2006-03-31 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Friday 31 March 2006 14:16, Bob Johnson wrote: > > In principle, an application feeds it to CUPS, CUPS feeds it to > GhostScript, and GhostScript uses the HPIJS driver to print it. Or > something like that. In practice, I use APSFILTER instead of CUPS, > and I haven't ever tried to do photo pri

Re: Best way to print photos

2006-03-31 Thread Bob Johnson
On 3/31/06, M. Warner Losh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > "Bob Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > : On 3/31/06, M. Warner Losh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > : > Let us suppose that I have a HP DeskJet 5850 that I can talk to via > : > CUPS. I can prin

Re: Best way to print photos

2006-03-31 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Donald J. O'Neill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : On Friday 31 March 2006 11:56, M. Warner Losh wrote: : > In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : > : > "Donald J. O'Neill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : > : On Friday 31 March 2006 10:37, M. Warner L

Re: Best way to print photos

2006-03-31 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Friday 31 March 2006 11:56, M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > "Donald J. O'Neill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > : On Friday 31 March 2006 10:37, M. Warner Losh wrote: > : > Bob, > : > > : > Thanks for the tips. I have these ports installed, but am > : > tri

Re: Best way to print photos

2006-03-31 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Donald J. O'Neill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : On Friday 31 March 2006 10:37, M. Warner Losh wrote: : > Bob, : > : > Thanks for the tips. I have these ports installed, but am tripping : > over something stupidly basic: what converts the pict0001.jpg i

Re: Best way to print photos

2006-03-31 Thread Micah
M. Warner Losh wrote: In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Bob Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : On 3/31/06, M. Warner Losh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : > Let us suppose that I have a HP DeskJet 5850 that I can talk to via : > CUPS. I can print test pages w/o any problem. : > : > Wh

Re: Best way to print photos

2006-03-31 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Friday 31 March 2006 10:37, M. Warner Losh wrote: > Bob, > > Thanks for the tips. I have these ports installed, but am tripping > over something stupidly basic: what converts the pict0001.jpg into > something that can be fed to the hpijs driver that will print? > > Warner >

Re: Best way to print photos

2006-03-31 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Friday 31 March 2006 10:34, M. Warner Losh wrote: > Let's assume for the moment that my PPD is good. I guess I'm looking > for something more basic: how do I take the .jpg from my camera and > get a photo on my printer. What's the conversion process? > > Warner Your going to have to look at g

Re: Best way to print photos

2006-03-31 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Bob Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : On 3/31/06, M. Warner Losh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : > Let us suppose that I have a HP DeskJet 5850 that I can talk to via : > CUPS. I can print test pages w/o any problem. : > : > What are my options to pri

Re: Best way to print photos

2006-03-31 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Donald J. O'Neill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : On Friday 31 March 2006 00:08, M. Warner Losh wrote: : > Let us suppose that I have a HP DeskJet 5850 that I can talk to via : > CUPS. I can print test pages w/o any problem. : > : > What are my options t

Re: Best way to print photos

2006-03-31 Thread Bob Johnson
On 3/31/06, M. Warner Losh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Let us suppose that I have a HP DeskJet 5850 that I can talk to via > CUPS. I can print test pages w/o any problem. > > What are my options to print photos and what kind of quality can I > expect relative to Windows? > According to http://w

Re: Best way to print photos

2006-03-31 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Friday 31 March 2006 00:08, M. Warner Losh wrote: > Let us suppose that I have a HP DeskJet 5850 that I can talk to via > CUPS. I can print test pages w/o any problem. > > What are my options to print photos and what kind of quality can I > expect relative to Windows? > > Warner > _