Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 17:32:51 +0300 From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@apropo.ro> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Printing to HP LaserJet III Message-ID: <20040510173251.5c053a6a@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro>
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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"
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