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Date:      Thu, 26 Aug 2010 08:07:47 -0600
From:      Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com>
To:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: printing outside browser cuts off top and bottom of page
Message-ID:  <20100826140747.GC78539@guilt.hydra>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1008251432300.32243@wonkity.com>
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On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 02:42:18PM -0600, Warren Block wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Aug 2010, Chad Perrin wrote:
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> >I was not entirely sure before today whether the 4050N could handle
> >straight PostScript instead of PCL, but the test I performed using nc to
> >see if it would print properly involved using pdf2ps and no other file
> >format transformations, so it seems PS is fine in this case.
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> The LJ4050 is a great printer.  The PS emulation works well and it's=20
> very smart about paper trays and input.  Sort of the Douglas DC3 of=20
> lasers; I know of a couple with page counts over a million.
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> For further information on lpd and filters, let me repost the link to my=
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> lpd article, which I really should have posted yesterday but forgot:
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> http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/lpdprinting.html

Thanks.  I'll be looking into lpd as a solution to my CUPS problem, since
there still doesn't appear to be an easy fix for CUPS.

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Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]

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