Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 13:53:57 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen <Jonathan.Chen@itouch.co.nz> To: Mateus <mateus@gold.com.br> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HP Deskjet 660 under FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE Message-ID: <20000505135357.A815@jonc.itouch.co.nz> In-Reply-To: <39109EDE.A6CA98C7@gold.com.br>; from mateus@gold.com.br on Wed, May 03, 2000 at 09:49:18PM %2B0000 References: <39109EDE.A6CA98C7@gold.com.br>
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On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 09:49:18PM +0000, Mateus wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm trying to make my HP Deskjet 660 printer work under FreeBSD
> 4.0-RELEASE, but anything seems to work. Tried several tutorials, and
> howtos, configured my printcap with several filters and following
> several handcaps but it still doesnt work.
> It startx to work, get paper in but doesnt print anything. Sometimes it
> prints a couple of characters in the top but thats all.
Sounds like staircasing.
If you want to print text, you'll have to add a if=somefilter entry to
the printcap; and have a filter which does something like:
#!/bin/sh
#
# Add a \r to each line
#
awk '{ print $0,"\r"; }'
--
Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz>
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