From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 3 8:28:14 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 E9B8237B400 for ; Sat, 3 Aug 2002 08:28:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wskatinka.kaqelectronics.dyndns.org (CPE-144-137-226-112.wa.bigpond.net.au [144.137.226.112]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5292843E6A for ; Sat, 3 Aug 2002 08:28:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from katinka@magestower.com) Received: from wskatinka.kaqelectronics.dyndns.org (localhost.kaqelectronics.dyndns.org [127.0.0.1]) by wskatinka.kaqelectronics.dyndns.org (8.12.5/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g73FXZef023565 for ; Sat, 3 Aug 2002 23:33:36 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from katinka@magestower.com) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Katinka Mills To: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Support for the brother HL 1440 laser printer Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2002 23:33:35 +0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.2 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200208032333.35128.katinka@magestower.com> 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 23:19, Warren Block wrote: > 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 Hi all, Sorry I meant to specify the errors, I get parts of pages printed then an error page is printed by the printer. Some pages get most of the page, others only an inch or two. I have my resolution set to 600x600. Regards, Kat. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- K.A.Q. Electronics Software and Electronic Engineering Perth, Western Australia Phone +61 (0) 419 923 731 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message