From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 7 22:00:14 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1450DFC8 for ; Sun, 7 Jun 2015 22:00:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from patrickhess@gmx.net) Received: from mout.gmx.net (mout.gmx.net [212.227.17.21]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "mout.gmx.net", Issuer "TeleSec ServerPass DE-1" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 977C0111D for ; Sun, 7 Jun 2015 22:00:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from patrickhess@gmx.net) Received: from desk8.phess.net ([95.88.11.237]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx102) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0MZfZi-1Ylp5W3aSE-00LXKy for ; Mon, 08 Jun 2015 00:00:04 +0200 From: Patrick Hess To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cups, and hplip too, fail to recognize printer when I try to print Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2015 00:00:03 +0200 Message-ID: <477957058.5k2z2xW8Mq@desk8.phess.net> User-Agent: KMail/4.14.2 (FreeBSD/10.1-RELEASE; KDE/4.14.2; i386; ; ) In-Reply-To: <367626.70666.bm@smtp111.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> References: <263570.73680.bm@smtp114.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> <367626.70666.bm@smtp111.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:MWjYbZAU1NnTOBW4g2bjdOyu2M1rAI0DRdHkSArwmKaR+ajSHcP Sitv4L+XpkhdBbQBndRXfi4Odv7/9HNTkJxGUjrUsat8YToH5UpqlEKIy4F0knTq2sizMIl DynuCN3AMLHV2YRbUNmFCqHd+W/I1hTyiTpLcJpN98rG5r9GqYNPFlCaLpP4cK6ZmjnmNk6 pqgxzDpgASUuwejy0f4Eg== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:4lvLRh4tj0I=:VTVzvFU4Rx+kcXPIDq1AUB KIk3f20ynsw8BLn3Q9XIZc6liidXby8KA1VAuAAU81AIVSUS+F6FO3+6a5/rZVk8T1j4B0EVU DSMYOSeK12xETPhT4QCtZJAkHYot7SQhFZlilvhUI3Ti0D0jFI0zpD/xqk0O0CA4+uoszGzVR xQ6u3g6GIGxBGBi7sQlV4rDG+pnSb+u63UG4LDTxwQPrTc/N3sey357T6IP8RNgefhNTw5TxM 6zYeNR9H/yI1s7BYBaARgqdvSQAbtxwSW8FuFXtCzxVqxPnorzChKLPaFxBYgV9AJoppcRyo5 39MaRupBLLgM9nt/6/nRb7WM4pHkxLgCqvhcVEkJ43Y6kT+OVvW9+x1Z5e+mc8M7fwn6v/j1Q 2abenVoILDRMPRSq4X1zu/y43tCP46ttjCw1iq28sb/DLYH7KWBR8Bi9i8JN43lPBkOCDvlEK iVrfvdhizjD3qek58gQSTjD406TQtLtLX+Q0lpwk4jRnYxvYgUhxagRIUzYzVnbOCaA0F2leL Ol0669tsoK+Pp34ajjQqdfNuvpzBtcg6VYZSdmg0sw5C4RjYDfEfblUyuUiypPsnSuIBbdwpP jAuO7LcSkjOe2SDg30i9naidWzH2r11hA9sk5FKM18j72EQp3UKejBNb6m5V95nAgvjJdtDH8 OmIFG4D/g20xkGa7cCa2XEV6qNIZLI8CSNf9WeuY/KvAuom7D+e+jPkmLoTOQ9Qwd+ws= X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 07 Jun 2015 22:00:14 -0000 Thomas Mueller wrote: > It would be helpful if a laser printer/all-in-one would support a > standard print file format/interface, like PDF, instead of having > their own proprietary PCL. > > Then such a printer might work in Linux and BSD even without a > specific driver. Or am I wrong? Just look for printers that support PostScript and you'll be fine. > So now I view hplip as a red flag and intend not to buy anything > further from HP, printer or otherwise. You may want to give Kyocera a try. They refer to their implementation of PostScript as "KPDL3", btw. Patrick