From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 12 6:26:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-27-141-144.mmcable.com [24.27.141.144]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2EFAB37B408 for ; Sun, 12 Aug 2001 06:26:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 64724 invoked by uid 100); 12 Aug 2001 13:26:52 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15222.33820.72582.176034@guru.mired.org> Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 08:26:52 -0500 To: John Merryweather Cooper Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What is the magical incantation necessary to print to /dev/ulpt0 In-Reply-To: <55215299@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John Merryweather Cooper types: > I have a DFI AK74-EC motherboard (VIA 686 chipset) and a Lexmark Z51 > printer. I would like to be able to print to the Z51 using /dev/ulpt0. > When connected, my dmesg output indicates that the Z51 is detected and > connected to /dev/ulpt0. However, attempts to print to this port (using > apsfilter, cp some_text_file /dev/ulpt0, etc.) have resulted in no activity > and no apparent transfer of data to the printer. > > So the question comes, what must I say over my computer to make things > print? :) LexMark tends to make cheap winprinters. That lexmark claims the z51 works on "DOS through Windows" instead of "DOS" makes me think you have one. If so, the only hope for making it work is to find a ghostscript driver for your printer. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message