Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2017 15:53:53 +0300 From: Boris Samorodov <bsam@passap.ru> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD CUPS PPD Message-ID: <4abfc7bd-b0df-da1c-434e-ed4e99760424@passap.ru> In-Reply-To: <02b89d54534d4f9dbe44df076e918572.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca> References: <02b89d54534d4f9dbe44df076e918572.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca>
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02.08.2017 00:29, James B. Byrne via freebsd-questions пишет: > We have several old Lexmark T632 printers which OpenPrinting.org > describes as 'paperweights'. Notwithstanding OPO's value judgement we > use these things as network printers for a wide variety of computers, > some of which are much older than the printers. One of their uses is > to produce cheques and to replace them for this purpose requires > re-certification of the replacements. So, they are not going anywhere > until they absolutely no longer work. > > Under CentOS-6 we use CUPS -1.4.2 with a PPD for these printers which > was sourced from some forgotten place but which works very well for > us. You may try linux emulation. Here are current packages: --- % pkg search cups-libs linux-c6-cups-libs-1.4.2_8 Common UNIX Printing System libraries linux-c7-cups-libs-1.6.3_3 Common UNIX Printing System libraries --- > On FreeBSD we use CUPS -2.2.3 and the PPD we have works not quite > so well. JFYI, the is a cups-genppdupdate utility at print/gutenprint. I'm not sure that it will DTRT, but seems worth to mention. > It works to the extent that the printers print but we cannot > 'see' their advanced features in the CUPS Browser. There are fields > created in the page display which are likely for this but they are not > populated with options. > > This is a bit esoteric for me. Is there anyone on the list that either > has a working PPD for this model printer that they are willing to > share; or is willing, for a fee, to revise the PPD we already have so > that it works with FreeBSD? -- WBR, Boris Samorodov (bsam) FreeBSD Committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve
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