Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 13:36:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Jim Freeze <jim@freeze.org> To: John Merryweather Cooper <jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net> Cc: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: What is the magical incantation necessary to print to /dev/ulpt0 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.32.0108121329170.94319-100000@www.stelesys.com> In-Reply-To: <20010812095648.Q477@johncoop>
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On Sun, 12 Aug 2001, John Merryweather Cooper wrote: > On 2001.08.12 06:26 Mike Meyer wrote: > > John Merryweather Cooper <jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net> types: > > > > LexMark tends to make cheap winprinters. That lexmark claims the z51 > > works on "DOS through Windows" instead of "DOS" makes me think you > > have one. If so, the only hope for making it work is to find a > > ghostscript driver for your printer. > > The lexmark printer works through DOS because it has a DOS printer driver. The lexmark consumer inkjet printers have a propietary file format. They do not understand postscript or pcl. Essentially, the data must be rasterized into cmyk binary data before it is sent to the printer. Last time I looked there were about five different drivers that worked with ghostscript. These drivers reverse engineered the printhead and converted RGB data from ghostscript into the propietary lexmark cmyk binary format. Lexmark also recently released a linux driver. I have not heard if anyone has got this to work with freebsd. If you want to test if your printer is getting data, do a print to file on a windows machine (something small, like a single black pixel.) Then, copy that file to the printer port from you freebsd machine. It should print just the same as from the pc. Please forgive me if this is all common knowledge and I have misunderstood the problem. Jim ========================================================= Jim Freeze jim@freeze.org --------------------------------------------------------- No comment at this time. http://www.freeze.org ========================================================= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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