From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 13 22:21:42 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id WAA14812 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 13 Feb 1996 22:21:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from wormhole (root@wormhole.map.com [204.71.19.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA14802 for ; Tue, 13 Feb 1996 22:21:37 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: Date: Tue, 13 Feb 96 21:42:33 EST From: jay@map.com (Roland Jay Roberts) Reply-To: jay@map.com (Roland Jay Roberts) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: tst@titan.cs.mci.com X-Mailer: Roland Roberts's PMMail v1.1 Subject: Re: Printing to a HP DeskJet 660Cse Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 11 Feb 1996 12:03:36 -0700 (MST) you wrote: >Has anyone configured and printed to a HP DeskJet 660Cse successfully >under FreeBSD? I've gotten my HP Deskjet 540 working under FreeBSD (and Linux). >I've tried apsfilter 4.9.3 and ghostscript. No luck. Any ideas or >suggestion are appreciated. Two things that'll help: One is the printing section in the handbook - VERY useful when setting up printers, and the other is a program/package called Magic Filter, found on sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/Printing (not *quite* sure that's the exact directory, but it's close). It is a "Linux" utility that compiles and runs just fine under FreeBSD, and is one heck of a print filter, as it'll handle anything you throw at it, provided you've got the proper tools installed. (Ghostscript is a must). Another thing: use the lptcontrol program to set the printer to using polled mode instead of interrupt mode - this usually will speed up printing a great deal. (Why the system doesn't like using interrupt mode is beyond me). // ------------------------------------- | |\ _,,,---,,_ // Roland Jay Roberts - Team OS/2 - | ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ // Internet: jay@map.com | |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' // FidoNet: Roland Roberts @ 1:321/305.5 | '---''(_/--' `-'\_)