From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 14 3:47:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D15E337B491 for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 03:47:52 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 4575 invoked by uid 100); 14 Feb 2001 11:47:52 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14986.28776.318071.582685@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 05:47:52 -0600 To: Peter Shpak Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE + HP DeskJet 820cxi problem In-Reply-To: <92624868@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.89 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 X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Peter Shpak types: > hello. > i have an HP DeskJet 820Cxi (a win printer) and i am > running 4.2 Stable. I have configured apsfilter, but > it does not print the test page. the printer is > recognized during bootup. dmesg points out that it is > connected on ppbus0. But sending text files to Since it's a win printer, you may be out of luck, just like win modems. However, all apsfilter does is arrange to turn things into postscript, then send them through ghostscript telling it to render for your printer, and send the results of *that* to the printer. If ghostscript doesn't recognize your printer, you're going to have problems getting much beyond flat text to print. apsfilter should have used the list of devices from gs to generate a list of printers for you to check from. Did you find your printer, or one you knew it was compatible with? If so, you might try using lpr to get the ghostscript printer driver working. 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