From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 10 07:29:14 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C739B16A4CF for ; Mon, 10 May 2004 07:29:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.rdsnet.ro (smtp.rdsnet.ro [62.231.74.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 956D843D2F for ; Mon, 10 May 2004 07:29:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from itetcu@apropo.ro) Received: (qmail 11080 invoked by uid 89); 10 May 2004 14:23:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO rdsnet.ro) (62.231.74.131) by 0 with SMTP; 10 May 2004 14:23:13 -0000 Received: (qmail 15579 invoked from network); 10 May 2004 14:29:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO buh.cameradicommercio.ro) (81.196.25.19) by mail.rdsnet.ro with SMTP; 10 May 2004 14:29:12 -0000 Received: from it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro (it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro [192.168.0.10]) by buh.cameradicommercio.ro (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A20960D0 for ; Mon, 10 May 2004 17:29:06 +0300 (EEST) Received: from localhost (localhost.buh.cameradicommercio.ro [127.0.0.1]) by it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8631C397 for ; Mon, 10 May 2004 17:32:52 +0300 (EEST) Received: from it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro ([127.0.0.1])port 10024) with ESMTP id 07941-04 for ; Mon, 10 May 2004 17:32:52 +0300 (EEST) Received: from it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro (localhost.buh.cameradicommercio.ro [127.0.0.1]) by it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro (Postfix) with SMTP id 196A7386 for ; Mon, 10 May 2004 17:32:52 +0300 (EEST) Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 17:32:51 +0300 From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20040510173251.5c053a6a@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.10claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro Subject: Printing to HP LaserJet III X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 14:29:14 -0000 Hi, I've brought an old (December 1990) HP LaserJet III printer obviously with no docs. It is connected on parallel port. Does anyone has the User Manual for this ? The only thing I could find on net was the meaning of the error codes. I suppose that it doesn't understand postscript since I had to install cups-pstoraster to be able to print from CUPS. Questions: 1. I've also installed gimp-print, and now I have in CUPS admin's web page not only the "HP LaserJet Series CUPS v.1.1 (en)" driver but also 15 "HP LaserJet Series - CUPS+GIMP-Print v.4.2.6 (en)" drivers; is there any difference between those 15 drivers ? (I think there are for different languages from what cups's /usr/local/sbin/lpinfo -l -m prints out). 2. The tray I have is for "legal" paper and I want to use A4; the problem is that if I set CUPS to print on A4 it's prompting "PC LOAD A4" and I have to push "Continue" for each page. If I use legal and I set the bottom margin to about 6 centimeters I don't have to press "Continue", but it still get the next page after finishing the current one (e.g. it spits out a page, wait a little and gets from the tray the next page) - a friend told me that under windows his printer gets half of the next page while printing the current one. Is it a problem of communication, the driver does submit the print job page by page ? Can it be set to do otherwise ? 3. From what I've seen on net there are many sub-models of LaserJet III with different capabilities; is there any method to query the printer and find out what it knows ? 4. Any suggested ports to install ? I will use ti to print various text /pdf /ps files probably Thanks for any input, -- IOnut Unregistered ;) FreeBSD "user"