From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 7 18:44:14 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4417E1065670 for ; Wed, 7 May 2008 18:44:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chuckr@chuckr.org) Received: from mail8.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail8.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27B468FC21 for ; Wed, 7 May 2008 18:44:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chuckr@chuckr.org) Received: (qmail 26411 invoked from network); 7 May 2008 18:44:13 -0000 Received: from april.chuckr.org (chuckr@[66.92.151.30]) (envelope-sender ) by mail8.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 7 May 2008 18:44:13 -0000 Message-ID: <4821F669.7080304@chuckr.org> Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 14:35:21 -0400 From: Chuck Robey User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20071107) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gary.jennejohn@freenet.de References: <48208A9C.8070305@chuckr.org> <20080507173849.581fb50a@peedub.jennejohn.org> In-Reply-To: <20080507173849.581fb50a@peedub.jennejohn.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.5 OpenPGP: id=F3DCA0E9; url=http://pgp.mit.edu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Trying for a duplex printer X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 18:44:14 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Gary Jennejohn wrote: > On Tue, 06 May 2008 12:43:08 -0400 > Chuck Robey wrote: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> I have been scouring all the data I can, to find printers that do duplex >> printing (that means doublesided printing). I found 3 models, but two of them >> (the HP C7280 and the Canon PIXMA MX850) have no public drivers I can find. The >> third, which is the Epson RX680, seems to be supported via drivers from Avasys >> (http://avasys.jp/hp/menu000000900/hpg000000859.htm) called PIPS drivers, but >> while there is are ports for various versions of PIPS in the print dir of ports, >> and I can find that the Avasys site lists supporting the RX680, I have two problems: >> >> 1) I can't determine which (if any) of the PIPS ports support the RX680, and >> 2) right now, none of them build because of an error you get about a >> linuxwrapper not handling symbol versioning. >> >> Is there any way to rely on any FreeBSD port to be able to use the RX680 from >> Epson? >> > > I'm using a Kyocera FS-1030D (the 'D' means duplex). Yes, it works. > > It works just fine with CUPS. It could be that one of the printers > which you're looking at would also work with CUPS. > > What you need to find is a PPD file which describes your printer. Mine > uses Kyocera_FS-1030_en.ppd. > > There's a Linux-specific site which has these PPDs available, which is > pretty easy to find with google. > > --- > Gary Jennejohn -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIIfZpz62J6PPcoOkRAjI2AJ96uxdoX1ZhAimAFEotkeNTMU2FEwCgl8vB ps34akd9ZgHXwN0bjAM3Vf4= =tYlI -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----