From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 29 12:31: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from archive.e-u-a.net (rrcs-midsouth-24-199-181-242.biz.rr.com [24.199.181.242]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5CEE37B400 for ; Wed, 29 May 2002 12:30:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from armageddon (e-u-a.net [24.199.181.242]) by archive.e-u-a.net (8.12.1/8.12.1) with SMTP id g4TJV52o030724; Wed, 29 May 2002 15:31:06 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from ecrist@secure-computing.net) Message-ID: <00a501c20747$5834e850$fe01a8c0@armageddon> Reply-To: "Eric F Crist" From: "Eric F Crist" To: , References: Subject: Re: How to Configure a HP Laserjet Printer to Use Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 14:30:50 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 Disposition-Notification-To: "Eric F Crist" X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 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 The HP printers mostly use PCL3 or PCL4 for the language, which I've found is best done using apsfilter. Take a look at that, and you should be able to print once you go through the setup. I use a Brother HL-1440, which uses PCL4, and it works great in KDE and command line, with/without graphics in the file I'm trying to print. HTH Eric F Crist President/Sys Admin AdTech Integrated Systems, Inc. http://www.adtechintegrated.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jianhong Gao" To: Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 5:08 AM Subject: How to Configure a HP Laserjet Printer to Use > I've just configured a HP Laserjet 5L to my computer running Freebsd 4.2. > The hardware configuration seems to be ok. But I just don't know how to > print to it. When I run "lptest > /dev/lpt0", the output is just a line of > characters including something untelligible. After setupping > /etc/printcap(without any filter specified) and invoking lpd, "lptest | lpr" > get the same result. When I try to print sth. to it, using "ps | lpr" or > "myls | lpr" or "lpr -r myfile", though the paper is fed in, nothing is > printed. I've consulted quite lots of books as well as handbook listed on > the site, but I still got no idea about how to solve this problem. Is there > some special filter I should use to make my HP laserjet printer work > correctly? If so, what's it and where can I get it? > Thanks in advance! > > _________________________________________________________________ > Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message