From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 3 8:19:52 2002 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 C3D9437B400 for ; Sat, 3 Aug 2002 08:19:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [63.93.4.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E6D243E5E for ; Sat, 3 Aug 2002 08:19:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost.wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.12.1/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g73FJnuF023737; Sat, 3 Aug 2002 09:19:49 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.12.1/8.12.1/Submit) with ESMTP id g73FJnaW023734; Sat, 3 Aug 2002 09:19:49 -0600 (MDT)?g (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2002 09:19:49 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block To: Katinka Mills Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Support for the brother HL 1440 laser printer In-Reply-To: <200208031703.46352.katinka@magestower.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 3 Aug 2002, Katinka Mills wrote: > I read the documentation on the brother website and they say to use ljet4 > drivers when no brother ones exist. > > If I send text to the printer no problems, but if I print from ghostscript I > get errors :o( Errors? Like what, exactly? Are you using the LaserJet 4 driver as suggested? Normally, you'd have an input filter defined in /etc/printcap that calls Ghostscript with the LJ4 driver specified as an output. I've done this, and it works surprisingly well. Unfortunately, I don't have it here at home, but can provide it later. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message