From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 28 04:00:19 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id EAA11001 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 28 Sep 1995 04:00:19 -0700 Received: from Glock.COM (root@glock.com [198.82.228.165]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id EAA10994 for ; Thu, 28 Sep 1995 04:00:08 -0700 Received: (from mmead@localhost) by Glock.COM (8.6.12/8.6.12) id GAA04831; Thu, 28 Sep 1995 06:57:35 -0400 Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 06:57:35 -0400 From: "matthew c. mead" Message-Id: <199509281057.GAA04831@Glock.COM> To: Christoph Kukulies Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Low end PS laser, or inkjet/bubblejet In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, September 28, 1995 08:51:58 +0100 References: <199509280456.AAA03968@Glock.COM> <199509280751.IAA14443@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, September 28, 1995 at 08:51:58 (+0100), Christoph Kukulies wrote: First, thanks for the info... > I'm running an Epson Stylus color (with a hacked gs2.6.1 under FreeBSD > 2.0.5) and it works like a charm. I have two test printouts > escher.ps and colorcirc.ps sticking at the wall and they look fine. What's the "hacked" refer to? Will gs262 do this out of the box or is there some driver you added? If there is, what is its public availability? > A bit a problem is the color trueness (dithering method) and I > don't see any way to manipulate this other than digging into > the drivers dithering method. Yeah, that makes sense. If you hear of any improved driver, please let me know - I'd like to integrate it if possible, as I think I'll now grab this printer... :-) > > Also, how easy was the printer to setup with freebsd, and can you use its > > highest dpi mode? Thanks for any pointers, recommendations, and help in > > advance! > Once you are familar with lpr setup it's an easy task. I kind of figured. I know BSD lpr/lpd stuff pretty well... > eps|epson-postscript|EPSON Stylus COLOR PostScript:\ > :lp=/dev/lpt1:\ > :sd=/var/spool/eps:\ > :sh:\ > :of=/usr/local/bin/gseps:\ > :lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:\ > :mx#0: > /usr/local/bin/gseps: > #!/bin/sh > /usr/local/bin/gs -q -dSAFER -sDEVICE=escp2cfs2 -r360 -dNOPAUSE -sOutputFile=- - I'd probably end up using apsfilter so that I could just do a plain old lpr and it would autodetect both ps and dvi input. -matt -- Matthew C. Mead mmead@Glock.COM | Network Administration and Software Development http://www.Glock.COM/~mmead/ | Consulting: BizNet Technologies -> mmead@bnt.com