From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 3 18:56: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from itouch.co.nz (fw2.wilsonandhorton.co.nz [203.99.66.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9556D37BF38 for ; Wed, 3 May 2000 18:56:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@itouch.co.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by itouch.co.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA00872; Fri, 5 May 2000 13:53:57 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 13:53:57 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: Mateus Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HP Deskjet 660 under FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE Message-ID: <20000505135357.A815@jonc.itouch.co.nz> References: <39109EDE.A6CA98C7@gold.com.br> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <39109EDE.A6CA98C7@gold.com.br>; from mateus@gold.com.br on Wed, May 03, 2000 at 09:49:18PM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message