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Date:      Mon, 01 Jan 2001 14:56:07 -0600
From:      David Kelly <dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org>
To:        "Michael Keener" <mgkeener@home.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: lexmark z52 printer 
Message-ID:  <200101012056.f01Ku7I63256@grumpy.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: Message from "Michael Keener" <mgkeener@home.com>  of "Mon, 01 Jan 2001 12:15:16 PST." <001b01c0742f$8e42c7c0$14131518@elcjn1.sdca.home.com> 

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"Michael Keener" writes:
> I was previously using the epson stylus color printer and was able to get it
> to print from the command line,
> but with no luck in Xwindows even after reading the chapter on printing over
> and over
> but now with this new Lexmark z52 it wont evenb perform a lptest... lpt0 is
> in the /dev and lpt0
> is recognized in boot..
> any suggestions

The Z52 may not be able to print plain text at all. I don't know. But I 
think that is what you are trying to do.

Lexmark does offer a ghostscript driver. Binary only, for Linux. Not 
sure how hard it would be to cross compile ghostscript for Linux under 
FreeBSD. Lexmark can't provide a pre-linked binary else GPL will 
contaiminate their copyright.

--
David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net
=====================================================================
The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its
capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.




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