Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 13:01:05 -0800 (PST) From: Bill Tillman <btillman99@yahoo.com> To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com> Subject: Re: RESOLVED: Printing via USB Port Message-ID: <222727.97456.qm@web36505.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1002271312100.18726@wonkity.com>
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--- On Sat, 2/27/10, Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote: From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Subject: Re: RESOLVED: Printing via USB Port To: "Bill Tillman" <btillman99@yahoo.com> Cc: "Robert Bonomi" <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.o= rg Date: Saturday, February 27, 2010, 2:26 PM On Sat, 27 Feb 2010, Bill Tillman wrote: > Okay guys this is finally working. I found the answer here: > =A0 > http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?p=3D64508 > =A0 > This didn't come up in my other searches. >=20 > This morning I put in "freebsd hl2040 usb" into my yahoo search and this = came up. Didn't you get my last message yesterday?=A0 It had that very link. =A0 > Seems this guy got it to work by using unlpt0 not ulpt0. I had tried this= before and was using the ifhp filter but that didn't work. The printer is not HP or even PCL, so ifhp is likely not the right filter. > So I did this with /etc/printcap: > =A0 > lp|HL2040|Brother HL-2040:\ > =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 :lp=3D/dev/unlpt0:\ > =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 :af=3D/home/bill/hl1250.ppd:\ > =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 :if=3D/usr/local/bin/foomatic-rip:\ > =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 :lf=3D/var/log/lpd/hl2040.log:\ > =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 :sh:sd=3D/var/spool/lpd/laser: It was probably the unlpt0 device that cured it.=A0 Could you verify whethe= r the plain lpd entry with the unlpt0 device works? lp:\ =A0 =A0=A0=A0:lp=3D/dev/unlpt0:\ =A0 =A0=A0=A0:sh:\ =A0 =A0=A0=A0:mx#0:\ =A0 =A0=A0=A0:sd=3D/var/spool/lpd/lp:\ =A0 =A0=A0=A0:if=3D/usr/local/libexec/ps2hl1250: \ =A0 =A0=A0=A0:lf=3D/var/log/lpd-errs: -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA =A0 Sorry to keep beating this dead horse but I forgot to mention that this als= o means that I didn't need the ppd file either. The ps2hl1250 takes care of= everything through ghostscript. One less thing to worry about in the setup= . =A0 I guess the only thing left to do with this is to figure out an if/then mod= ule to decide whether the file is postscript or just plain text and then pr= int just plain text without using the ghostscript portion. The ifhp filter = did this and I will look there for ideas. Once in a blue moon I might actua= lly print out some plain text files from one of the FreeBSD severs and I wi= ll need this functionality. =A0 I'm going to write my HOWTO on this and shutup for now.=0A=0A=0A
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