Date: Thu, 08 May 2008 12:11:57 -0400 From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org> To: Joakim Fogelberg <joafog.lists@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Trying for a duplex printer Message-ID: <4823264D.6030904@chuckr.org> In-Reply-To: <e18c7cda0805080740l508044efk9cda5808383f4a61@mail.gmail.com> References: <48208A9C.8070305@chuckr.org> <e18c7cda0805080740l508044efk9cda5808383f4a61@mail.gmail.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Joakim Fogelberg wrote: > On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 6:43 PM, Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org> 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? > > Have you tried print/gutenprint ? > No ... I know how to do a minimal test with gs (just use the gs flags to convert a postscript file to a printer-native file, then (as root) copy it over to the printer's port in /dev). Do you know how to do that in gutenprint? There isn't any man page for it. Besides that, I think that the usb interface must have some bug in it. At every attempted copy to /dev/ulpt0, it always fails to print, just tossing this error: Cannot open /dev/ulpt0 read/write: Device busy That happens even if I have powered down the printer for a minute, then restarting it. I know that's the correct device by reading /var/log/messages: May 8 12:02:01 april kernel: ulpt0: <EPSON USB Printer, class 0/0, rev 1.10/1.00, addr 3> on uhub0 May 8 12:02:01 april kernel: ulpt0: using bi-directional mode -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIIyZNz62J6PPcoOkRAh+TAJ4yQirycFgMOk2UA8JGOUe98rH6nQCdGubk O/ZLQfIIHHShHKW5I6X74rA= =M6np -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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