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

2006-04-05 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 showing

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 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 print/cups. (2)

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

2006-04-04 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

2006-04-04 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/cups-lpr

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 bordered photo

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 you mean will

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

2006-04-03 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 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 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) Install

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/cups. :

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

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

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 to print

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 print photos

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

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 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. : : What are my

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 into :

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 : tripping over

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 Losh wrote: : :

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 print test pages w/o

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

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 in your

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 : something like

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 (although not with

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 : supposed to autodetect

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 something

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 can be

Best way to print photos

2006-03-30 Thread M. Warner Losh
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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org