Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 01:55:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Lanny Baron <beef@cybertouch.org> To: "Rick C. Petty" <rick@kris.wpi.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Printing (can't get it right) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980428014737.2262B-100000@cybertouch.org> In-Reply-To: <199804271248.IAA10498@kris.wpi.edu>
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On Mon, 27 Apr 1998, Rick C. Petty wrote:
> > I am wondering if anyone else here besides Mr. Lehey (hi Greg) has
> > been able to get a printer such as a Canon BJC-4100 to print, legibly. I
> > have tried with ghostscript (can't figure that either), with postscript
> > (ditto) and have now pulled about 320 hairs out of my head.
>
> Well I wasn't getting anything to work when I first tried setting up printers
> but I learned how to get it to work on my system. What version of FreeBSD
> are you using?
Hello Rick,
What version of ghostscript do you have installed?
2.2.6
What
> device type did you specify to ghostscript?
I could not figure out how to use ghostscript but i believe its 5.10
What problems were you having?
> Meaning "I got something to print out but it was garbage" or "lpq was saying
> there was no printer daemon present".
my printer
prints a few words
and the lines come out
like this all
the time
and then off the page :-(
>
> I'm no expert but I'll offer what help I can,
>
I do appreciate your help Rick,
Thank you,
Lanny Baron
> --Rick C. Petty, aka Snoopy mailto: rick@kris.wpi.edu
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