From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 28 03:18:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA12297 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 28 Apr 1998 03:18:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mrelay.jrc.it (mrelay.jrc.it [139.191.1.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA12286 for ; Tue, 28 Apr 1998 03:18:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dirk.vangulik@jrc.it) Received: from mda00.jrc.it (mda00.jrc.it [139.191.7.10]) by mrelay.jrc.it (LMC5688) with ESMTP id MAA07951; Tue, 28 Apr 1998 12:18:05 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from dirkx@localhost) by mda00.jrc.it (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA19848; Tue, 28 Apr 1998 12:18:50 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 12:18:49 +0200 (CEST) From: Dirk-Willem van Gulik X-Sender: dirkx@mda00.jrc.it To: Lanny Baron cc: "Rick C. Petty" , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Printing (can't get it right) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 28 Apr 1998, Lanny Baron wrote: > 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. > > > my printer > prints a few words > and the lines come out > like this all > the time > > and then off the page :-( Check out the FreeBSD handbook; the chapter (6) on configuring printers has just the right anwers for this; and yes I have the same Canon printer; I copied those pages and it works for me. Just follow the steps one by one, and things should start to work. At http://www.nl.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook85.html The section headered 'Trying it out' Has a subsection 'It produced the ``staircase effect.''' Which should help. There is also a pointer in the FAQ to much the same solution. Dw. > > > > 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 > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > C/C++/DBMS/SQL/Perl/Java/HTML http://kris.wpi.edu/~rick/ > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message