Re: print filter?

2007-07-17 Thread Fred Crowson
Bob Beck wrote: I used to fight with such insanity constantly. However since printers are frequently sold and shipped with a basically undocumented interface, and more than half the time these filter utilites are barely reverse engineered POS's I decided long ago that fighting with

Re: print filter?

2007-07-17 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Tue, 17 Jul 2007, Fred Crowson wrote: Bob Beck wrote: I used to fight with such insanity constantly. However since printers are frequently sold and shipped with a basically undocumented interface, and more than half the time these filter utilites are barely reverse engineered

Re: print filter?

2007-07-17 Thread Fred Crowson
Otto Moerbeek wrote: Try surpressing the burst page header: add ``sh''. -Otto Hi Otto, Adding :sh: to my printcap didn't resolve the issue, and the Lexmark C500 is still resetting the connection. I have taken up the issue with Lexmark support, but they are painfully slow and not

Re: print filter?

2007-07-17 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 09:24:06AM -0600, Bob Beck wrote: I used to fight with such insanity constantly. However since printers are frequently sold and shipped with a basically undocumented interface, and more than half the time these filter utilites are barely reverse

Re: print filter?

2007-07-17 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Tuesday 17 July 2007, Fred Crowson wrote: rp|c500|laser|lexmark:\ :lp=:\ :rm=c500.crowsons.net:\ :rp=ps:\ :sd=/var/spool/C500:\ :lf=/var/log/lpd-errs: x41:fred ~ lpr -Plaser which.ps x41:fred ~ tail -2 /var/log/lpd-errs Jul 17 18:14:36 x41

Re: print filter?

2007-07-15 Thread Brian Candler
On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 02:38:14PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: I'm familiar with apsfilter and actually just got it to work with this printer on my debian box with debian's stock gs-gpl. Part of my reason for asking on OBSD is that I'm exploring the larger issue of licensing. I know

print filter?

2007-07-14 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
I'm wondering what the OBSD people generally use for print filtering. I have an old IBM PC Graphics printer (dot-matrix) attached to my debian box but everyone there seems to use CUPS. I could just as easily connect the printer to my OBSD box. The last time I used this printer to print

Re: print filter?

2007-07-14 Thread Adriaan
On 7/14/07, Douglas Allan Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm wondering what the OBSD people generally use for print filtering. I have an old IBM PC Graphics printer (dot-matrix) attached to my debian box but everyone there seems to use CUPS. I could just as easily connect the printer to my

Re: print filter?

2007-07-14 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 07:22:41PM +0200, Adriaan wrote: On 7/14/07, Douglas Allan Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm wondering what the OBSD people generally use for print filtering. I have an old IBM PC Graphics printer (dot-matrix) attached to my debian box but everyone there seems to use