From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 29 16:42:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from node11a94.a2000.nl (node11a94.a2000.nl [24.132.26.148]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0135D37B91B for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 16:42:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ronald@node11a94.a2000.nl) Received: (qmail 93169 invoked from network); 30 Mar 2000 00:42:15 -0000 Received: from tulip.evertsen.nl (HELO tulip100.evertsen.nl) (10.0.0.6) by node11a94.a2000.nl with SMTP; 30 Mar 2000 00:42:15 -0000 Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 02:42:12 +0200 (CEST) From: Ronald Klop To: Derrick Baumer Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Printer compatibility In-Reply-To: <200003300010.QAA14460@earthlink.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Maybe it is something with the interupt-driven/polled printer port. See the mailarchive on www.freebsd.org/search for more info on this. See also 'man lpt' and 'man lptcontrol'. I had similar problems once, but I don't know if they have the same reason. Because you don't send any info about your configuration (ports in kernel) in your e-mail. Greetings, Ronald. On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Derrick Baumer wrote: > Sorry - this isn't really FreeBSD-specific, per se, but it should be a > really quick fix... :) > > I have an old, but completely functional 24 pin printer that I can't > get to work with ghostscript. I am wondering if anybody has had any > success using the Panasonic KX-P2123 (without color module) under > ghostscript. Specifically, which driver are you using? I tried the > generic Epson-compatible 9/24 pin driver (epson) but the results seem > haphazard at best. While portions of the text are readable, some of > it is duplicated, written in the wrong spot, cut in half, etc... The > end result is a mess. > > I'm sure the postscript file I'm using is good because I can use the > X11 device and get a very nice view of the document. This also shows > (or seems to) that gs is properly interpreting the file and making a > useful conversion. The printer works fine under Windows (sorry) so I > know the printer is doing its job right. The only thing left is that > I must be using the wrong driver. > > Ideas? > > -- Ronald Klop http://node11a94.a2000.nl/~ronald/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message