From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 28 7:49:32 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 A72E837B718 for ; Wed, 28 Feb 2001 07:49:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 36970 invoked by uid 100); 28 Feb 2001 15:49:28 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15005.7688.111560.446013@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 09:49:28 -0600 To: "Otter" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: 4.1 and Epson 880 printer config In-Reply-To: <77481251@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 Otter types: > Mine was setup briefly for use under FreeBSD. First of all, I used the > parallel connection, instead of the USB. It seemed like less bloat on > the kernel. Second, I installed ghostscript 6.50 with apsfilter. > Apsfilter's setup requires some gimp plugin found in the newer > ghostscript. Once you get that installed, you should be set. Serve > with a twist of lime. Enjoy! USB .vs. parallel - probably if that's the only USB device you have. Otherwise? Who knows. I've found my laser printer gets much better data rates over USB than it did over parallel, though. Personally, I like the idea of diking parallel port support out completely, and turning it off in the BIOS to free up an IRQ. But that's just me. If the gimp plugin for ghostscript bothers you, try magicfilter instead of apsfilter. Magicfilter seems like less bloat than apsfilter. 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