From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 8 07:41:02 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44F791065677 for ; Thu, 8 May 2008 07:41:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gary.jennejohn@freenet.de) Received: from mout2.freenet.de (mout2.freenet.de [IPv6:2001:748:100:40::2:4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A54B78FC1C for ; Thu, 8 May 2008 07:41:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gary.jennejohn@freenet.de) Received: from [195.4.92.20] (helo=10.mx.freenet.de) by mout2.freenet.de with esmtpa (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ju0kM-0008Ll-8W; Thu, 08 May 2008 09:40:58 +0200 Received: from x1a77.x.pppool.de ([89.59.26.119]:48344 helo=peedub.jennejohn.org) by 10.mx.freenet.de with esmtpa (ID gary.jennejohn@freenet.de) (port 25) (Exim 4.69 #12) id 1Ju0kL-0005x9-Uq; Thu, 08 May 2008 09:40:58 +0200 Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 09:40:56 +0200 From: Gary Jennejohn To: Chuck Robey Message-ID: <20080508094056.6b302ae3@peedub.jennejohn.org> In-Reply-To: <4821F854.50808@chuckr.org> References: <48208A9C.8070305@chuckr.org> <20080507173849.581fb50a@peedub.jennejohn.org> <4821F854.50808@chuckr.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.4.0 (GTK+ 2.10.14; amd64-portbld-freebsd8.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Trying for a duplex printer X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: gary.jennejohn@freenet.de List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 May 2008 07:41:02 -0000 On Wed, 07 May 2008 14:43:32 -0400 Chuck Robey wrote: [snip Kyocera FS-1030D] > Thanks, Gary. Took me quite a while to find this baby, because it seems that > Kyocera's main site doesn't acknowledge of the Kyocera-Mita's products. I > finally found out that it's a fairly big monochrome laser. I rather like the > color I get from the cheaper inkjets, although I sure would rather get one with > a FreeBSD driver. Further, from what I could find, I couldn't tell if it was a > postscript native printer, and I am dead-set against any postscript native > printers, because I used to have one, and when compared to any innkset that must > use a translator such as ghostscript, the postscript native printers are (or, at > least used to be) dead slow. Maybe it took them too long to transfer big > postscript files, or maybe it took the internal processors too long to > translate, I dunno, but when I had one of the original old HP laserjets with a > postscript cartridge, and I converted to using ghostscript about a year after I > got it, I was shocked that my print rate went up about 4-5 times as fast. I > could actually get the advertised print rates. > Well, I have an ethernet card in it, so transfer times are not a problem. This printer _emulates_ postscript quite well. It actually supports other modes. Here's a list from the Technical Reference manual: The printing systems emulate the operation of seven other printers: HP LaserJet (mode 6) HP 7550A (mode 8) IBM Proprinter X24E (mode 1) Epson LQ-850 (mode 5) Diablo 630 (mode 2) Standard line printer (mode 0) KPDL (mode 9) [PostScript compatible] Supposedly it can do 22 ppm single sheet and 11 ppm duplex, but I've never checked that. > I suppose my next trick is to attempt to find out about glib's symbol > versioning, enough so that it could be added to the linuxwrapper. Then (I hope) > I get the PIPS driver that exists for the Epson RX680. > I wasn't trying to suggest that you get a FS-1030D. I was just giving an example of a printer which works with CUPS in duplex mode. IMO the next trick would be to look for a PPD file for one of the printers you have in mind. If you find one then it would be simple to use CUPS. --- Gary Jennejohn