From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 27 11:20:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freeze.org (www.bellnetworks.net [208.177.187.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9816E37B4C5 for ; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 11:20:17 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jim@localhost) by freeze.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA54912; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 14:19:59 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jim) X-Authentication-Warning: www.bellnetworks.net: Processed from queue /var/spool/alt_queue X-Authentication-Warning: www.bellnetworks.net: Processed by jim with -C /web/siteinfo/freeze/mail/sendmail.cf Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 14:19:59 -0500 (EST) From: Jim Freeze X-Sender: jim@www.bellnetworks.net To: David Kelly Cc: Daryl Chance , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Lexmark Z42 printing under unix In-Reply-To: <20001127130607.A45144@grumpy.dyndns.org> 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 The Lexmark released drivers for Linux are binaries. The formatting of the data for their printers is part of Lexmark's trade secrets. There are however several reverse-engineered conversion utilities (with src) for some older Lexmark printers. I know that one of the drivers is black only. Even with these, I think that gs is used. The typical data path is: Original Data --> Raster Data (via gs) --> Host Based Printing (HBP) aka Printer ready data. The last conversion (Raster->HBP) is the binary portion of the Linux driver from Lexmark or you can get source from one of the reverse-engineered filters. Jim =========================== Jim Freeze jim@freeze.org =========================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message