Re: printing to Kyocera FS-1030D

2011-09-01 Thread Conrad J. Sabatier
On Wed, 3 Aug 2011 13:22:51 -0500 Ryan Coleman edi...@d3photography.com wrote: Screw off. Top posting is actually a default in the mail software community. And I will always do it. Thanks for the warning. More annoying: Extra spaces and not removing the cruff from the bottom of emails. And

Re: printing to Kyocera FS-1030D

2011-08-05 Thread Chris Whitehouse
On 05/08/2011 01:58, Warren Block wrote: On Thu, 4 Aug 2011, Roland Smith wrote: There are several possible drivers you could use; pcl3 pxlmono pxlcolor. The gutenprint (a.k.a. gimp-print) driver also supports your printer directly. ljet4 is the PCL5 driver, and anything with PCL6 is

Re: printing to Kyocera FS-1030D

2011-08-05 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 5 Aug 2011, Chris Whitehouse wrote: It seems the printer normally receives some code as part of the print job which sets it to PS or whatever just for this job. If I could find out this code maybe I could write it into a filter. The HP equivalent is PJL. Some searching suggests the

Re: printing to Kyocera FS-1030D

2011-08-04 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 05:41:44PM +0100, Chris Whitehouse wrote: Hi, before I use up too many trees experimenting, could some kind soul tell me how I can get OpenOffice to print to this printer. This is the first time I have tried to get anything printed from FreeBSD. I'm following the

Re: printing to Kyocera FS-1030D

2011-08-04 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 4 Aug 2011, Roland Smith wrote: There are several possible drivers you could use; pcl3 pxlmono pxlcolor. The gutenprint (a.k.a. gimp-print) driver also supports your printer directly. ljet4 is the PCL5 driver, and anything with PCL6 is supposed to also support PCL5. I'd suggest

printing to Kyocera FS-1030D

2011-08-03 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Hi, before I use up too many trees experimenting, could some kind soul tell me how I can get OpenOffice to print to this printer. This is the first time I have tried to get anything printed from FreeBSD. I'm following the handbook. I think the basic setup is ok, I can get text printed using

Re: printing to Kyocera FS-1030D

2011-08-03 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Hi, I would install CUPS and use the PPD file recommended on openprinting.org (http://www.openprinting.org/printer/Kyocera/Kyocera-FS-1030D). Cheers, Pierre-Luc On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote: Hi, before I use up too many trees experimenting, could

Re: printing to Kyocera FS-1030D

2011-08-03 Thread Robert Bonomi
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Wed Aug 3 11:42:44 2011 Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2011 17:41:44 +0100 From: Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com To: User Questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: printing to Kyocera FS-1030D Hi, before I use up too many trees experimenting, could

Re: printing to Kyocera FS-1030D

2011-08-03 Thread Gour-Gadadhara Dasa
On Wed, 03 Aug 2011 17:41:44 +0100 Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote: Hi, before I use up too many trees experimenting, could some kind soul tell me how I can get OpenOffice to print to this printer. This is the first time I have tried to get anything printed from FreeBSD. I've

Re: printing to Kyocera FS-1030D

2011-08-03 Thread Robert Bonomi
also _RFC 1855_ for the closest thing to an 'official' stance on the matter. Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 13:10:03 -0400 From: Pierre-Luc Drouin pldro...@pldrouin.net To: Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com Cc: User Questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: printing to Kyocera FS-1030D

Re: printing to Kyocera FS-1030D

2011-08-03 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Wednesday, August 03, 2011 a las 01:08:01PM -0500, Robert Bonomi escribió: Pierre, please do not 'top post' replies -- it makes the 'logic' of the message hard to follow, to wit: Yes, please do not top post; Apparently you missed the mention in the OP's original message that the

Re: printing to Kyocera FS-1030D

2011-08-03 Thread Ryan Coleman
for the closest thing to an 'official' stance on the matter. Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 13:10:03 -0400 From: Pierre-Luc Drouin pldro...@pldrouin.net To: Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com Cc: User Questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: printing to Kyocera FS-1030D Hi, I

Re: printing to Kyocera FS-1030D

2011-08-03 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Wednesday, August 03, 2011 a las 01:22:51PM -0500, Ryan Coleman escribió: Screw off. Top posting is actually a default in the mail software community. And I will always do it. It is by no way a default. It is just a defect, ignorance and bad taste, and even if the mayority use it, it

RE: printing to Kyocera FS-1030D

2011-08-03 Thread Gary Gatten
...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Matthias Apitz Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2011 1:30 PM To: Ryan Coleman Cc: pldro...@pldrouin.net; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; cwhi...@onetel.com; Robert Bonomi Subject: Re: printing to Kyocera FS-1030D El día Wednesday, August

Re: printing to Kyocera FS-1030D

2011-08-03 Thread Chris Whitehouse
On 03/08/2011 18:58, Gour-Gadadhara Dasa wrote: On Wed, 03 Aug 2011 17:41:44 +0100 Chris Whitehousecwhi...@onetel.com wrote: Hi, before I use up too many trees experimenting, could some kind soul tell me how I can get OpenOffice to print to this printer. This is the first time I have tried

Re: printing to Kyocera FS-1030D

2011-08-03 Thread Chris Whitehouse
On 03/08/2011 18:59, Robert Bonomi wrote: So either what should I set Device to, or how do I get ghostscript to know about this printer? I don't think there is a 'generic' PCL driver, but one of the 'HP laserjet' drivers _should_ do the job. Pick one thqt corresponds to a

Re: printing to Kyocera FS-1030D

2011-08-03 Thread Chris Whitehouse
On 03/08/2011 19:18, Matthias Apitz wrote: # catps-file |lpr -Plp To the OP: You won the todays Useless Use of Cat Award :-) The same would do: lpr -Plp ps-file or lpr -Plp ps-file :-) matthias Well I'm not a guru so perhaps I can be excused :-) Still

Re: printing to Kyocera FS-1030D

2011-08-03 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 3 Aug 2011, Chris Whitehouse wrote: # cat ps-file |lpr -Plp I get the whole text of the file not just Is this thing working?. The printer has various emulations, it is set to PCL 6 and I can't change it (not my printer) HP printers can use PJL sequences to set the page description

Re: printing to Kyocera FS-1030D

2011-08-03 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 3 Aug 2011 20:18:53 +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: So, what? If you can only print PCL, just raster the Postscript file with ghostscript to PCL (using CUPS, this also can be done on the fly); Why the emphasize of CUPS? Even printer filter collections like apsfilter are too fat for that