Re: Can I use an HP printer
Yes, that is how I do it also - with slightly different options of course. With those printers, gimp is your friend. With the one that the OP has, there's a specific driver for it. Ted - Original Message - From: "Yuri Grebenkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2007 5:32 AM Subject: Re: Can I use an HP printer > I have an Epson Stylus C43SX and have made it print PostScript > through the following filter using GIMP Print and Ghostscript: > > # /usr/local/libexec/ps2eps.sh > gs -DSAFER -sDEVICE=ijs -sIjsServer=ijsgimpprint \ >-sDeviceManufacturer=EPSON -sDeviceModel=escp2-c42sx \ >-DIjsUseOutputFD -q -sOutputFile=- -DNOPAUSE -DBATCH - \ > && exit 0 > > Also, to turn on extended mode for my local lpt0 I use this: > > lptcontrol -e /dev/lpt0 > > Yuri > > > On Thu, 8 Feb 2007 23:31:31 -0800 > "Ted Mittelstaedt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I myself have an Epson C84 inkjet in my home that has the same issues. > ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Can I use an HP printer
I have an Epson Stylus C43SX and have made it print PostScript through the following filter using GIMP Print and Ghostscript: # /usr/local/libexec/ps2eps.sh gs -DSAFER -sDEVICE=ijs -sIjsServer=ijsgimpprint \ -sDeviceManufacturer=EPSON -sDeviceModel=escp2-c42sx \ -DIjsUseOutputFD -q -sOutputFile=- -DNOPAUSE -DBATCH - \ && exit 0 Also, to turn on extended mode for my local lpt0 I use this: lptcontrol -e /dev/lpt0 Yuri On Thu, 8 Feb 2007 23:31:31 -0800 "Ted Mittelstaedt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I myself have an Epson C84 inkjet in my home that has the same issues. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Can I use an HP printer
Chris, Your HP 4550N is a real commercial printer with a PostScript interpreter in it, that is why you can just send the print jobs directly to it and the printer will do the work of rasterizing them. Bob doesen't have a PostScript printer like your 4550N His is a cheapie home "winprinter" that has no engine in the printer and can only do very limited processing. It definitely ain't going to understand PostScript fed to it, and likely not even ASCII. For Bob to get his printer to work means he's going to have to install Ghostscript, and a special driver that interprets the intermediate output from Ghostscript into something that the 2600n can digest. Here is a driver that someone wrote that can do this: http://foo2hp.rkkda.com/ I assume it's somewhere in the FreeBSD ports. What Bob needs to do to get his printer to work involves hours of labor and a lot of knowledge of how the various pieces fit together under FreeBSD. If he was installing it under Linux he could use these instructions: http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-Color_LaserJet_2600n but I'll repost the warning from that page here: "...the printer works like a charm, but for printing photos the colors are horrible - at least with the default settings and the driver dated May 18..." In other words, after a Herculean effort he is only going to end up with something that works. Not something that works well. If he just bought this printer the smartest thing he could do is take it back to the store and get a better printer that could speak PostScript - like your 4550N. It will be a bit more expensive but it's not cost-justifyable in a business environment to waste the labor getting a non-PostScript printer to work with a UNIX like FreeBSD. I myself have an Epson C84 inkjet in my home that has the same issues. I bought it knowing all this full well, and I did in fact spend the time to get it to work, and it does work well. Since we only use the thing probably 6 times a year to print color (we also have a PostScript laserjet at home) I decided that since my labor was free that I'd rather spend my money on something other than a printer, so I bought a cheap printer. But, since that purchase a year ago I've seen at least 5 of these printers in excellent shape at the local Goodwill store. So I have to conclude that a lot of people out there have gone down the non-Postscript route, found it wanting, and said hell with it and went back to the store and got a real printer. The other thing that they don't tell you when you go the Ghostscript route, is that unless you have a screamingly fast CPU, it takes a long, LONG time for the driver to rasterize a page in your computer! Ted - Original Message - From: "Chris Hill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Bob" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 8:14 PM Subject: Re: Can I use an HP printer > On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Bob wrote: > > > I recently purchased a Hewlett Packard Color LaserJet 2600n printer. > > It works perfectly under Windows XP but I cannot get it to work under > > FreeBSD 6.2. > > I have set it up as a network printer on a LAN and it has it's own > > permanent IP. I can ping the IP but that is all I can do. > > I have been using HP printers under FreeBSD for years now. Since your > printer has an IP, I presume it has a JetDirect card. > > > Can this printer actually be made to work or am I wasting my (and > > your) time even trying? > > You may need to set up some things in /etc/printcap. Here is the > relevant portion of mine: > > # HP color laser > lp|snow|snowball|lj|ps|HP ColorLaserJet 4550N:\ > :sh:\ > :sd=/var/spool/output/lpd:\ > :mx#0:\ > :lp=:rm=snowball:rp="auto": > > I'm using lpr, so I had to enable that in /etc/rc.conf. I also had to > manually create the directory /var/spool/output/lpd. The snowball part > is a hostname for the printer, which you can set up in /etc/hosts or a > split DNS. (My printers are named after Devo songs.) > > HTH. > > -- > Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ** [ Busy Expunging <|> ] > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Can I use an HP printer
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 01:38:14PM +1000, Bob wrote: > >Hello >I recently purchased a Hewlett Packard Color LaserJet 2600n printer. >It works perfectly under Windows XP but I cannot get it to work under >FreeBSD 6.2. According to the HP pages, it only supports host-based printer languages. I.e. it's a win-printer. You can get it to mostly work using foo2hp: http://foo2hp.rkkda.com/ For printer questions in general have a look at this page: http://www.linuxprinting.org/printer_list.cgi Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpWlDJwkLf5K.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Can I use an HP printer
On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Bob wrote: I recently purchased a Hewlett Packard Color LaserJet 2600n printer. It works perfectly under Windows XP but I cannot get it to work under FreeBSD 6.2. I have set it up as a network printer on a LAN and it has it's own permanent IP. I can ping the IP but that is all I can do. I have been using HP printers under FreeBSD for years now. Since your printer has an IP, I presume it has a JetDirect card. Can this printer actually be made to work or am I wasting my (and your) time even trying? You may need to set up some things in /etc/printcap. Here is the relevant portion of mine: # HP color laser lp|snow|snowball|lj|ps|HP ColorLaserJet 4550N:\ :sh:\ :sd=/var/spool/output/lpd:\ :mx#0:\ :lp=:rm=snowball:rp="auto": I'm using lpr, so I had to enable that in /etc/rc.conf. I also had to manually create the directory /var/spool/output/lpd. The snowball part is a hostname for the printer, which you can set up in /etc/hosts or a split DNS. (My printers are named after Devo songs.) HTH. -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging <|> ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Can I use an HP printer
Hello I recently purchased a Hewlett Packard Color LaserJet 2600n printer. It works perfectly under Windows XP but I cannot get it to work under FreeBSD 6.2. I have set it up as a network printer on a LAN and it has it's own permanent IP. I can ping the IP but that is all I can do. Can this printer actually be made to work or am I wasting my (and your) time even trying? Thanks Bob Willson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
