Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:19:40 -0800 (PST) From: Bill Tillman <btillman99@yahoo.com> To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Printing via USB Port Message-ID: <203272.55003.qm@web36506.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1002261626210.14611@wonkity.com>
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--- On Fri, 2/26/10, Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote: From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Subject: Re: Printing via USB Port To: "Bill Tillman" <btillman99@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Friday, February 26, 2010, 5:38 PM On Fri, 26 Feb 2010, Bill Tillman wrote: > > Thanks again for your valuable input. I have set up lpd printing on my old FreeBSD server at least a dozen times and it became a simple routine to do with apsfilter. Let me see if I can place all my cards in one place and perhaps we can find the bug. I think I found it. The HL-2040 is a GDI printer, aka winprinter (aka "oh no, one of those", aka "I guess I didn't really want to print that after all"). It won't respond to PCL, unlike the one I looked up first, the HL-2060. Based on http://beej.us/hl2040/: % cd /usr/local/libexec % cp ps2pcl ps2hl1250 Change the line in ps2hl1250 to: /usr/local/bin/gs -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=hl1250 -sOutputFile=- - ^^^^^^ And change the if= line in the printcap to refer to ps2hl1250. (And remember, buying winprinters just encourages them to make more.) -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA Warren, Once again many thanks, but that is one of the first things I tried. By checking ghostcript's drivers #gs -h | grep hl I found many drivers for the HL-12xx models. I have used this in my previous setup with my old parallel server. I actually tried what you suggested and it only worked when using the parallel cable, not the USB. For some reason the USB connection on this and any other FreeBSD server I connect to is DOA for printing. I run mouse and keyboard via USB. But these print jobs are lining up in the queue and just sit there no matter how many times I reconnect the printer, or reboot it or reboot the computer. And once again I'm seeing two instances of lpd running when I only launched it from the command line once, no entry in /etc/rc.conf. BigDell# ps -ax | grep lpd 1311 ?? Is 0:00.00 lpd 1329 ?? IE 0:00.00 lpd BigDell# lpq no entries BigDell# lpc status all lp: queuing is enabled printing is enabled no entries in spool area printer idle BigDell# This just don't make sense and I hope when we find it it's something we can laugh about.
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