Re: MFC 7840W under CUPS

2012-02-17 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 10:00:38 -0500, Jerry wrote: It appears that ps is no-longer the format of choice but is being replaced by PDF, a format that is natively supported by many printers. Jerry, I wanted to point out that PS still seems to be the format that _applications_ use as output format

Re: MFC 7840W under CUPS

2012-02-17 Thread Da Rock
On 02/17/12 23:14, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 10:00:38 -0500, Jerry wrote: It appears that ps is no-longer the format of choice but is being replaced by PDF, a format that is natively supported by many printers. Jerry, I wanted to point out that PS still seems to be the format that

Re: MFC 7840W under CUPS

2012-02-17 Thread Polytropon
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

Re: MFC 7840W under CUPS

2012-02-17 Thread Da Rock
On 02/17/12 23:33, Da Rock wrote: On 02/17/12 23:14, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 10:00:38 -0500, Jerry wrote: It appears that ps is no-longer the format of choice but is being replaced by PDF, a format that is natively supported by many printers. Jerry, I wanted to point out that PS

Re: MFC 7840W under CUPS

2012-02-17 Thread Jerry
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 the

Re: MFC 7840W under CUPS

2012-02-17 Thread Da Rock
On 02/17/12 23:57, Polytropon wrote: 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

Re: MFC 7840W under CUPS

2012-02-17 Thread Da Rock
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

Re: MFC 7840W under CUPS

2012-02-12 Thread Jerry
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, is configured in CUPS but

Re: MFC 7840W under CUPS

2012-02-12 Thread Da Rock
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,

Re: MFC 7840W under CUPS

2012-02-12 Thread Jerry
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 paper

Re: MFC 7840W under CUPS

2012-02-12 Thread Da Rock
On 02/13/12 01:00, Jerry wrote: 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

Re: MFC 7840W under CUPS

2012-02-11 Thread Polytropon
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'm trying to print.

Re: MFC 7840W under CUPS

2012-02-06 Thread Jerry
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 I'm trying to

Re: MFC 7840W under CUPS

2012-02-06 Thread Da Rock
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

MFC 7840W under CUPS

2012-02-05 Thread Ouyang Xueyu
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 behaviour? X.

Re: MFC 7840W under CUPS

2012-02-05 Thread Da Rock
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 know a