Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 22:14:59 -0400 From: Mike Jeays <Mike.Jeays@rogers.com> To: Alejandro Pulver <alejandro@varnet.biz> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Epson Stylus C65 Message-ID: <1129774499.722.79.camel@chaucer.jeays.ca> In-Reply-To: <20051019210103.75ebd048@phobos.mars.bsd> References: <20051019210103.75ebd048@phobos.mars.bsd>
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On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 20:01, Alejandro Pulver wrote: > Hello, > > I have tried to make this non-Postscript printer work on FreeBSD > without success. It is connected by USB and appears as '/dev/ulpt0'. > > I have tried 'apsfilter' with Gimp-Print drivers for Epson Stylus C64, > but it only printed some ',' characters at the left. > > I remember it worked with a Knoppix Linux live CD, where I selected the > printer from the KDE printer setup (with CUPS). I don't know what filter > it was using (Gimp-Print, Foomatic, etc.). Also in FreeBSD I dind't see > the same long list of printers (probably they weren't from CUPS, but > added from elsewhere, like Foomatic or Gimp-Print). > > What can I do to make it work? > > Thanks and Best Regards, > Ale > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" I had a good bit of trouble with the very similar C86. Google for the DeviceModel parameter values if these don't work with a C65. You need to install ijsgimpprint, of course. At present, my etc/printcap file says: lp|C86:\ :lp=/dev/unlpt0:\ :lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:\ :if=/home/mike/bin/C86-filter:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd:\ :mx#0\ :sh: and my home-grown filter contains: #!/bin/sh TMP=/tmp/C86.tmp PS=/tmp/C86.ps cat >$TMP ch1=`head -1 $TMP | cut -c 1` if [ "$ch1" = '%' ] then # echo "Postscript" cat $TMP >$PS else # echo "Text" /usr/local/bin/enscript -B -q -p - $TMP >$PS fi # InkType=CMYK, RGB are valid cat $PS | /usr/local/bin/gs -sDEVICE=ijs \ -sIjsServer=/usr/local/bin/ijsgimpprint \ -sDeviceManufacturer=EPSON \ -sDeviceModel=escp2-c84 \ -sIjsParams=Quality=720x360sw,InkType=CMYK,MediaType=Plain \ -dIjsUseOutputFD \ -q \ -dNOPAUSE \ -dBATCH \ -sOutputFile=- - # MUST delete them, or subsequent jobs may have trouble rm -f $TMP,$PS This is not what you would call polished software - the minute I got it to work, I stopped fiddling with it. It does at least do the job.
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