From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Jan 31 22: 5:13 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF7C537B401 for ; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 22:05:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from wwweasel.geeksrus.net (wwweasel.geeksrus.net [64.8.210.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A758F43F79 for ; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 22:05:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from alane@wwweasel.geeksrus.net) Received: from wwweasel.geeksrus.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wwweasel.geeksrus.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h1164p1X040651; Sat, 1 Feb 2003 01:04:51 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from alane@wwweasel.geeksrus.net) Received: (from alane@localhost) by wwweasel.geeksrus.net (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h1164pGr040650; Sat, 1 Feb 2003 01:04:51 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from alane) Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2003 01:04:51 -0500 From: AlanE To: Andrew Reilly Cc: FreeBSD Ports List Subject: Re: CUPS on FreeBSD: what if printer is postscript? Message-ID: <20030201060451.GA30223@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> Reply-To: alane@geeksrus.net Mail-Followup-To: Andrew Reilly , FreeBSD Ports List References: <1044078083.469.5.camel@gurney.reilly.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1044078083.469.5.camel@gurney.reilly.home> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-message-flag: Every program expands until it can send mail. Except Exchange Server. Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 04:41:23PM +1100, Andrew Reilly wrote: >Hi Alan, maintainer of the ports/print/cups port on FreeBSD, > >A bunch of other ports, like SAMBA, now require cups, and it seems like >a cool and groovy thing, so OK. > >But whereas I wasn't actually having any problems with good old lpr/lpd >and my postscript printer (a Lexmark Optra E312L), I can't find any CUPS >do_nothing.ppd or GenericPS.ppd that I would expect to talk to a generic >postscript printer. > >Any clues, or other fora where I might more profitably ask this >question? Use the PPD for Windows NT that came with the printer. It's NOT a do nothing ppd. Or go to Adobe's site, where you can download PPD files also. I have a PS printer, too, and I use the NT PPD and it works fine. -- AlanE (Alan Eldridge) Unix/C(++) IT Pro for 20 yrs, likes fixing weird distributed systems bugs. KDE, KDE-FreeBSD Teams (http://www.kde.org, http://freebsd.kde.org/) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message