From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 5 01:15:02 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA963106566C for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2008 01:15:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from punosevac@math.arizona.edu) Received: from smtp-gs.math.arizona.edu (math051.cs.arizona.edu [150.135.82.51]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88D488FC1A for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2008 01:15:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from punosevac@math.arizona.edu) Received: from Debian-exim by smtp-gs.math.arizona.edu with local-bsmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JWiDl-0002MR-Cy for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 04 Mar 2008 18:15:02 -0700 Received: from math050.cs.arizona.edu ([150.135.82.50] helo=squirrelmail.math.arizona.edu) by smtp-gs.math.arizona.edu with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JWiDg-0002M9-7p; Tue, 04 Mar 2008 18:14:56 -0700 Received: from 150.135.84.71 (SquirrelMail authenticated user punosevac) by squirrelmail.math.arizona.edu with HTTP; Tue, 4 Mar 2008 18:14:56 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <1475.150.135.84.71.1204679696.squirrel@squirrelmail.math.arizona.edu> In-Reply-To: <47CDDCCD.3090200@gmx.net> References: <58d1e8d30803041406y7a99b5acn9616efff83ac683b@mail.gmail.com> <47CDDCCD.3090200@gmx.net> Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 18:14:56 -0700 (MST) From: punosevac@math.arizona.edu To: "Michael Ross" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.9a MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Outgoing-Spam-Score: -1.4 (-) Cc: Bob Falanga , freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Printing with a laserjet 1018 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 01:15:02 -0000 > Bob Falanga schrieb: >> First of all, thanks to those who have helped me so far. >> I have configured the printer and everything looks OK, but when I do a >> test >> print the test page goes into the printer queue and stays there for >> ever. >> The printer doesn't even squeak. First I had to use the print driver for >> a >> laserjet 1010 as I couldn't kind a driver for the 1018. Second the >> printer >> does work under the alternate OS. >> >> Any ideas? >> > That printer uses foo2zjs driver. It doesn't matter if you are going to use CUPS or LPD. That is reversed eng driver so YMMV. > HP printer using CUPS, right? > Try using /usr/local/bin/lpr instead of /usr/bin/lpr. > Same goes for lprm, lpq and friends. > Make sure all your apps do. > Maybe replace /usr/bin/lpr with /usr/local/bin/lpr. > Repeat after installworld. > > HTH > > Michael > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >