From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 8 19:38:27 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 41BDA106564A for ; Thu, 8 May 2008 19:38:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mario@schmut.com) Received: from mail.schmut.com (mail.schmut.com [66.92.49.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1F29E8FC0A for ; Thu, 8 May 2008 19:38:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mario@schmut.com) Received: (qmail 59099 invoked by uid 89); 8 May 2008 19:11:45 -0000 Received: from [192.168.223.4] (192.168.223.4) by snoopy.schmut.com (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Thu, 08 May 2008 12:11:44 -0700 To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 12:17:03 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <48208A9C.8070305@chuckr.org> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200805081217.03938.mario@schmut.com> X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.12 (Macallan) From: Mario Theodoridis X-Primary-Address: mario@schmut.com X-Schmut-Approved: yes Cc: Chuck Robey , Joakim Fogelberg Subject: Re: Trying for a duplex printer X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Mario Theodoridis List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 May 2008 19:38:27 -0000 I've been using the Brother HL1850 with CUPS for the last 4-5 Years. It came with the ppd on the CD and cranks out 10-20 pages/min 5-10 in duplex mode. All this time it's been running off the parallel port. The hl1870 has a nic. The only time things get a bit slow is when you throw heavy graphics at it. mario;> On Thursday 08 May 2008 07:40:45 Joakim Fogelberg wrote: > On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 6:43 PM, 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? > > Have you tried print/gutenprint ? >