Re: printing to HP LaserJet 4050 TN
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Warren Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Darren Spruell wrote: When you print to lp, the input filter (if=) called checkps sees if the incoming file is PostScript. It also detects HP PJL PostScript jobs, which the example given in the Handbook does not. If the job is PostScript, it sends it to the lpraw queue, which is the real printer. Just as an aside, there are two ports that do this kind of filtering, and much more as well. If you're already tweaking the printcap yourself, magicfilter is the lighter weight and more flexible solution. If you don't want to fool with the printcap, then apsfilter has a configure script that will set it up for you. Both will do enscript on text. But they also detect lots of other things and will transform them into postscript to be printed. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: printing to HP LaserJet 4050 TN
On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Darren Spruell wrote: We have this printer set up to print to from the network and I have printed to it by IP address before. It is connected to a Windows server but I would like to print directly to it by IP from my fbsd 4.7 box. I have installed the cups-base, cups-pstoraster, and ghostscript-gnu packages. Afterwards I looked through the Handbook but didn't see anything that cleared up the process of configuring this printer. It's a PostScript printer, so you shouldn't need ghostscript. I can't help you with CUPS, never tried it. Good old ordinary printcap entries work fine: lpraw:\ :lp=:\ :sh:\ :mx#0:\ :rm=laser:\ :rp=raw:\ :sd=/var/spool/output/lpd/lpraw:\ :lf=/var/log/lpd-errs: After creating the spool directory (sd=) and entering an IP address for laser in /etc/hosts, this works fine. This is just for sending raw PostScript output, of course. The queue name is lpraw, so you'd print to it with # lpr -Plpraw postscriptfile.ps My lp queue runs through a little Perl program that detects PostScript and passes it through. Text is formatted with enscript and then printed. I can post the whole setup if you'd like. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
