From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 6 7:50:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.ms-agentur.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A8D037B434 for ; Mon, 6 Aug 2001 07:50:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from so@i-clue.de) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.ms-agentur.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id QAA14533; Mon, 6 Aug 2001 16:57:51 +0200 Message-ID: <3B6EAF10.111FEE77@i-clue.de> Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2001 16:52:00 +0200 From: Christoph Sold Reply-To: so@i-clue.de X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: de,en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: George Genovezos Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Printer problems -- lpr: lp: unknown printer References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 George Genovezos wrote: > > Ok. I'm getting ready to throught this printer out the window. & no you cant > wait outside. I want to see it splat ;) > > Here is the skinny on thir prob. > > Freebsd 4.3 stable > Lexmark z22 Have a look at the _proprietary_ Linux driver. See http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=327401 for more info. > cat /etc/printcap > > lp | lexmark | Lexmark Printer: > :lp=/dev/lpt0: > :mx#0:px#0:ph#0:sh:lf=/usr/adm/lpd-errs: > :sd=/var/spool/lpd.lexmark: > > [snip] > > Any hints or do I watch the printer go splat? Have a look at current ghostscript status at www.ghostscript.com -- that's the way to have unsupported printers get to print. HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message