Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 18:51:48 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Da Rock <freebsd-questions@herveybayaustralia.com.au> Subject: Re: Installing Samsung CLX-2160 color laser printer on USB using CUPS Message-ID: <20120226185148.34d9b63c.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <4F497814.9000704@herveybayaustralia.com.au> References: <20120225221433.cba3d0dd.freebsd@edvax.de> <CADGWnjW9FxbphhxbGyWMCctsBJV7HH5zYf%2Bx7wg5e3=BQXDUxQ@mail.gmail.com> <20120225231409.fdd67bff.freebsd@edvax.de> <4F497814.9000704@herveybayaustralia.com.au>
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On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 10:08:52 +1000, Da Rock wrote: > I don't know that I can add anything to the cups discussion here, but I > understand you'd rather use lpr anyway. You are aware that the printer > will only speak splix the samsung universal driver language? So any > config would have to be based on that. The foo2qpdl-wrapper program seems to support that fine. > Once you have that working maybe you can manually add the printer in > cups using lpd. Maybe? For sure! It's quite easy to do it (make entry in /etc/printcap, create spool directories, write printer filter one-liner "foo2qpdl-wrapper -p 2 -c" which is the essential part). I just hope printing will be possible from applications (Opera, OpenOffice and Gimp are the primary candidates) afterwards. You know, many "modern" programs _expect_ CUPS to be present, some have hardcoded "calls" to CUPS programs, some seem to even _not_ output PS (which should be standard), but instead PCL or whatnot. > JIC you haven't considered this yet... HIH :) Considered - yes, but I thought I would be able to avoid it and use the "modern" CUPS toolkit for something simple like printing. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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