Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 01:18:41 +0000 From: Dave <freebsd01@dgmm.net> To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6 hours of trying to configure my printer - solved Message-ID: <52s1319qhb3s4ug7fta1q90kkjpp0jsotk@4ax.com> In-Reply-To: <4227EBA2.2090402@optonline.net> References: <4223F97E.2090401@optonline.net> <20050301173923.S26737@wonkity.com> <4227EBA2.2090402@optonline.net>
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On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 00:01:22 -0500, you wrote: >I got my printing working by installing "apsfilter" and by following >some of the instructions in the (printed) "The FreeBSD Handbook 2ed". I >am using FreeBSD 5.3, an HP940c Deskjet, parallel port connection, and >the "lpr" method of printing (rather than the "CUPS" method). I'll add my thanks for that "mini How-to" also. I've just spent some head scratching time getting my Epson Stylus Photo R200 working with FreeBSD. I also went the lpr route and set up a basic /etc/printcap file for it and pointed gimp-print at it as I only really needed, initially, to print from the Gimp. The head scratching was caused by assuming that the printer device was /dev/ulpt0. It's not. It's /dev/unlpt0. The 'n' is for no-reset. Using /dev/ulpt0 just prints garbled text instead of the graphics I was sending. For text, I've got an HPLJ5M with postscript so that was a doddle, even down to using the network interface to print :-0 Thanks to Ted for the pointers to using apsfilter/ghostscript/ijs/gimp-print too. I'll have a look at that so I can use the Epson for other stuff if I find the need. Dave -- Dave Please address email replies to: [our favourite OS] AT dgmm DOT net For offlist replies please put FreeBSD in the subject line.
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