Date: Tue, 5 May 2020 17:16:42 +0700 From: Victor Sudakov <vas@sibptus.ru> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Brother HL-L2340D printer and lpd? Message-ID: <20200505101642.GA16244@admin.sibptus.ru> In-Reply-To: <20200504085053.9bcf8d9d.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20200503171259.GA48627@admin.sibptus.ru> <20200503192444.2d700440.freebsd@edvax.de> <ec10816a-15d1-e947-e032-9ad024c044d6@pinyon.org> <20200503185521.GB52059@admin.sibptus.ru> <20200504085053.9bcf8d9d.freebsd@edvax.de>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Polytropon wrote: > On Mon, 4 May 2020 01:55:21 +0700, Victor Sudakov wrote: > > Russell L. Carter wrote: > > > > > > I print to an HL-L2340DW by using CUPS to remotely print to > > > a Debian CUPS that has it configured as a "driverless" printer: > > > > > > https://wiki.debian.org/CUPSDriverlessPrinting > > > > Is it connected to the Debian system as a local (USB) printer or a > > networked printer? > > > > Nevertheless, I don't want fancy graphics from it, I just need a line > > printer to print out configs, logs and such. It comes as a surprise to > > me that I would need "drivers" to print ascii text. It's something every > > printer understands, including my first dot matrix Epson in 1992 or > > something where you could print with "type file.txt > lpt1" in DOS. > > That would probably have been: > > > TYPE FILE.TXT > LPT1: > > or maybe > > > COPY FILE.TXT PRN: > > Note the : in the "special file name" and the fact that those > are still reserved names in current "Windows" versions. ;-) I'm almost sure the colon after "LPT1" or "PRN" was not required, those were reserved device names even without a colon. > > > However, it's really scary that a printer like the one mentioned > here does not seem to understand ASCII text, even though it > supports PCL standard (as shown on the specification page). I've been unable to print anything PCL on it (thank you for your samples, but no success so far). > Maybe font licenses were too expensive... ;-) I would not mind uploading fonts into a line printer. I used to do that a couple of times from a printcap filter, to print Cyrillic on a Laser Jet printer without Cyrillic characters. -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN 2:5005/49@fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/ [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJesT0KAAoJEA2k8lmbXsY0jsAH/AhakQ6eB0GMA9qYZ2oyayOB P92HMY3pYSwQs9whdJkMLzwwCIYw/Jx6n5lqHEilIRTmtYNcFeg2QE4D7goL2IiQ B6ruMxnFrTUsOdPZefea+dSn1fqH1lJ8Lm6lX/G1gMq3mYaWLy2XFDOEkYqnRypZ oDxrIZ4OnpcH0lEVPyghoA7ChzkgvxTUvYKvQv57wp1CDzgpyn2B7FDjEnpPr+ZF 4e/ydXeycbJ3Pvf0z6gm4zFYT2RlB+fdq6wtXO4ILi0b0T4AaDCfo6+RXjuxv0oN QyqD3M3FflKPAVsko2G9WriYx8W3rnRVJpEaq3tvwVMw1uo8aRfWhAx5/nx6CV8= =FHh0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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