I know this thread is very old, but I thought this might be useful for
the archives -- and maybe for the original poster as well.
* Bryan on Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 10:48:58PM -0600:
it was easier to copy the file to a Windows box and print. But I'm
tired of having to do this, and have begun
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 09:53, Stefan Unterweger ste...@aleturo.com wrote:
I know this thread is very old, but I thought this might be useful for
the archives -- and maybe for the original poster as well.
As the person who wrote this, I thank you for posting this. I gave up
trying to get lpd
* Bryan on Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 10:38:57AM -0500:
In my case, the printcap recipe looks like this:
| brother|Brother MFC-9840CDW:\
|
:lp=:rm=172.23.13.150:rp=BRN001BA968596A_AT:sd=/var/spool/output/brother:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs
Obviously, you have to replace IP address and MAC address
Jacob Meuser jake...@sdf.lonestar.org writes:
On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 03:59:02PM +0100, Manuel Giraud wrote:
Jacob Meuser jake...@sdf.lonestar.org writes:
foomatic is pretty easy to set up.
Thread hijacker here. I tried to setup a lpd/foomatic for a printer over
network and always
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 8:59 AM, Manuel Giraud
manuel.gir...@univ-nantes.fr wrote:
Jacob Meuser jake...@sdf.lonestar.org writes:
foomatic is pretty easy to set up.
Thread hijacker here. I tried to setup a lpd/foomatic for a printer over
network and always end-up with this kind of message in
Jacob Meuser jake...@sdf.lonestar.org writes:
foomatic is pretty easy to set up.
Thread hijacker here. I tried to setup a lpd/foomatic for a printer over
network and always end-up with this kind of message in
/var/log/lpd-errs:
--8---cut here---start-8---
Feb
On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 03:59:02PM +0100, Manuel Giraud wrote:
Jacob Meuser jake...@sdf.lonestar.org writes:
foomatic is pretty easy to set up.
Thread hijacker here. I tried to setup a lpd/foomatic for a printer over
network and always end-up with this kind of message in
Jan Stary h...@stare.cz schrieb:
fo just forces a form feed;
it doesn't turn PS support on/off or whatever.
Certainly not, but it seems the printer is picky about recognizing
PostScript as such. I don't know what data actually hits the wire,
maybe there is some bogus data sent before the actual
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 09:37:24AM +, Dennis den Brok wrote:
Jan Stary h...@stare.cz schrieb:
fo just forces a form feed;
it doesn't turn PS support on/off or whatever.
Certainly not, but it seems the printer is picky about recognizing
PostScript as such. I don't know what data
Otto Moerbeek o...@drijf.net schrieb:
printcap sh is your friend.
It is indeed, thank you.
--
Dennis den Brok
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 09:37:24AM +, Dennis den Brok wrote:
Jan Stary h...@stare.cz schrieb:
fo just forces a form feed;
it doesn't turn PS support on/off or whatever.
Certainly not, but it seems the printer is picky about recognizing
PostScript as such. I don't know what data
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 01:51:15PM -0800, Sean Kamath wrote:
%!
newpath clippath stroke showpage
These four commands were the smallest PostScript I could figure out to send to
a printer to print something without burning up tons of toner. It should
produce a small line all the way around
I'm not sure your printer support Postscript. It supports PCL-6 and
BR-Script 3 (whatever the hell the latter may be)
Try using gs to convert your postscript files to pcl3 and feeding those to
lpr.
$ gs -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pcl3 -sOutputFile=/tmp/junk%d.pcl3 letter.ps
$ lpr /tmp/junk*.pcl3
To test, try manually converting whatever you want to print with
ghostscript, and then printing the result.
I found that the filter script included with ghostscript didn't work,
but with some hacking I got it to work. It does some horrible shell
hacks to autoconfig, and if you just edit in the
patrick keshishian pkesh...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm not sure your printer support Postscript. It supports PCL-6 and
BR-Script 3 (whatever the hell the latter may be)
It's PostScript 3, but Brother didn't buy the firmware from Adobe
and used a different implementation.
--
Christian naddy
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 01:17, patrick keshishian pkesh...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm not sure your printer support Postscript. It supports PCL-6 and
BR-Script 3 (whatever the hell the latter may be)
Try using gs to convert your postscript files to pcl3 and feeding those to
lpr.
$ gs -dNOPAUSE
Bryan bra...@gmail.com wrote:
I recently bought a Brother 9840CDW, which supports lpd and postscript.
It's valid as of the 24th of January 2011. I have googled several
sites, and found a site that was able to help me get a running config.
This meant I was able to successfully send
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 10:10, Christian Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de
wrote:
patrick keshishian pkesh...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm not sure your printer support Postscript. It supports PCL-6 and
BR-Script 3 (whatever the hell the latter may be)
It's PostScript 3, but Brother didn't buy the
On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 11:48 PM, Bryan bra...@gmail.com wrote:
I have been hampered with this for a few years now, and at most times,
it was easier to copy the file to a Windows box and print. But I'm
tired of having to do this, and have begun researching how to print to
a printer on the
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 10:47, Christian Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de
wrote:
Bryan bra...@gmail.com wrote:
I recently bought a Brother 9840CDW, which supports lpd and postscript.
B It's valid as of the 24th of January 2011. B I have googled several
sites, and found a site that was able to
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 12:57:20PM -0500, Ted Unangst wrote:
On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 11:48 PM, Bryan bra...@gmail.com wrote:
I have been hampered with this for a few years now, and at most times,
it was easier to copy the file to a Windows box and print. But I'm
tired of having to do this,
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 7:30 AM, Bryan bra...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 01:17, patrick keshishian pkesh...@gmail.com
wrote:
I'm not sure your printer support Postscript. It supports PCL-6 and
BR-Script 3 (whatever the hell the latter may be)
Try using gs to convert your
patrick keshishian pkesh...@gmail.com schrieb:
You keep saying and thinking that it supports post script. It does
not. Otherwise feeding it a postscript file would print the document,
not the postscript text/source.
This may actually depend on the configuration. For instance, a
Kyocera Mita
On Jan 30, 2011, at 12:06 PM, patrick keshishian wrote:
It supports Postscript, and even has it's own lpd running so that you
can FTP files to it to print.
You keep saying and thinking that it supports post script. It does
not. Otherwise feeding it a postscript file would print the document,
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 15:51, Sean Kamath kam...@geekoids.com wrote:
On Jan 30, 2011, at 12:06 PM, patrick keshishian wrote:
It supports Postscript, and even has it's own lpd running so that you
can FTP files to it to print.
You keep saying and thinking that it supports post script. It does
On Jan 30 10:23:29, Bryan wrote:
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 10:10, Christian Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de
wrote:
patrick keshishian pkesh...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm not sure your printer support Postscript. It supports PCL-6 and
BR-Script 3 (whatever the hell the latter may be)
It's
On Jan 30 21:47:40, Dennis den Brok wrote:
patrick keshishian pkesh...@gmail.com schrieb:
You keep saying and thinking that it supports post script. It does
not. Otherwise feeding it a postscript file would print the document,
not the postscript text/source.
This may actually depend on
On Jan 30 19:30:46, Bryan wrote:
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 15:51, Sean Kamath kam...@geekoids.com wrote:
On Jan 30, 2011, at 12:06 PM, patrick keshishian wrote:
It supports Postscript, and even has it's own lpd running so that you
can FTP files to it to print.
You keep saying and thinking
*tried sending this to the newbies list, but was kicked back*
I have been hampered with this for a few years now, and at most times,
it was easier to copy the file to a Windows box and print. But I'm
tired of having to do this, and have begun researching how to print to
a printer on the network.
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