From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 12 18:16: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from amukta.gci.net (amukta.gci.net [208.138.130.216]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 471A8150D7 for ; Fri, 12 Nov 1999 18:16:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from irisinc@gci.net) Received: from gci.net ([209.165.142.227]) by amukta.gci.net (Netscape Messaging Server 4.05) with ESMTP id FL468700.K4S for ; Fri, 12 Nov 1999 17:14:31 -0900 Message-ID: <382CC9EC.B6E7462F@gci.net> Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 17:16:12 -0900 From: Rusty X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD-questions Subject: Printing Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Good day; I am running FreeBSD 3.2 on an Asus P3 w/ a 400 MgH Celeron, 64 Mg of RAM, Riva TNT /w 16 Mg of RAM, sound card, etc.;. I used the Complete Free BSD, Freebsd Manual, discussion group archives and have lurked on this list for three months trying to get printing configured on my machine. I wrote /etc/printcap as instructed for my HP LaserJet 6MP, did all of the testing and finally took everyone's advice and installed apsfilter. First try with apsfilter was a message that the address in the port files was no good. After finding Andreas Klemm's web page and hacking the port Makefile to reflect the new address I was able to download apsfilter. The only problem I then had was that the checksum did not match the file on the web site. I proceeded anyway and the port installed. I configured the apsfilter SETUP program for my printer (which BTW will only be allowed to use the ghostscript LaserJet IV driver, Not the PCL 5-6 family) ran the test page and got a picture of a tiger's head. Well, almost a complete picture of a Tiger's head; about the top left hand corner of a page that if complete would be the size of four (4) 8.5 x 11 sheets of paper. When printing a page, the fonts are anywhere from 20 to 36 points and produce that same 1/4 page. I read the man page, the archives, ghostscript README, Use.htm, etc., etc. I don't know how I got this resolution or how to change it back to a reasonable size. Before I came to FreeBSD, I used the BSD printing system on Linux. The system is in need of a major overhaul but it seems to work well on Linux. I can't understand how I am having so much trouble here. Any help will be appreciated. Rusty To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message