From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 31 21:21:52 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36FAA16A433 for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 21:21:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsdlists@gmail.com) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.237]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26BCF43D5A for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 21:21:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from fbsdlists@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 67so989692wri for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 13:21:50 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=TRcKi0X03mXx7V/GaJ1UNr/hwn6X00w6qhDywoO4MJdFX/EbK+l8j7bUXRRB7DpCx4tVAJwgcXrfvRR9Vwgv4NTbieIsPicLjRxpcx558TQvmD/T/8rIGgKG3fqHBOrRsF1NTCrvfDNGd5hXpF5XuNsxr+ek7E99GxLkDPEBv2E= Received: by 10.64.203.13 with SMTP id a13mr447822qbg; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 13:21:49 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.65.206.4 with HTTP; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 13:21:49 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <54db43990603311321w6d4507c9lea0c33fe18361c63@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 16:21:49 -0500 From: "Bob Johnson" To: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <20060331.135811.19956105.imp@bsdimp.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060331.093712.44146841.imp@bsdimp.com> <54db43990603311216y50ea816bi970f31acaf031589@mail.gmail.com> <200603311441.57084.donaldjoneill@gmail.com> <20060331.135811.19956105.imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: donaldjoneill@gmail.com, bobo1009@mailtest2.eng.ufl.edu, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best way to print photos X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 21:21:52 -0000 On 3/31/06, M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <200603311441.57084.donaldjoneill@gmail.com> > "Donald J. O'Neill" writes: > : On Friday 31 March 2006 14:16, Bob Johnson wrote: > : > > : > The process works for printing JPEGs from web pages on my laser > : > printer (although not with HPIJS), and since the HPIJS driver is > : > supposed to autodetect photo paper in your printer, I would expect it > : > to "just work" for photos if you can print a web page with it. > : > > : > > : > _______________________________________________ > : > : Unless the printer was capable of determining what sort of paper it was > : loaded with, I just don't see how the HPIJS driver would autodetect > : photopaper. > > It doesn't. However, one of the CUPS settings is 'paper type' and > 'paper size'. There's also print quality. I can set those manually > and CUPS claims that the settings changes have taken effect. > > Warner > If HPIJS doesn't autodetect photo paper, you may not be able to print decent photos. It may be that HPIJS detects the change, but doesn't tell CUPS about it. You have me curious enough that I think getting our HP 4xxx (whatever it is) working with FreeBSD will be a project for this weekend. The pinhole camera can wait another week, I guess. If I learn anything useful, I'll let you know. - Bob