From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 10 18:12:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-27-149-77.mmcable.com [24.27.149.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8467937B503 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2000 18:12:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 62931 invoked by uid 100); 11 Oct 2000 01:12:23 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14819.48759.752750.166556@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 20:12:23 -0500 (CDT) To: "M. Sebastian Comella" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: printer issues In-Reply-To: <38737825@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG M. Sebastian Comella writes: > I am running a new Dell Dimension 4100 system with FreeBSD 4.1. The Dell > came with a Canon BJC-4110 printer; unfortunately, Canon chose to only > ensure compatibility with Windows and Macintosh computers. >[...] > I know the printer functions on its own (printing internally-stored test > pages and such), and I know the communication is ok (as indicated by the > messages at boot); it just seems that something is being lost when the data > hits the printer...Do I need to find (or write) a driver for this device, or > some similar action? If so, I would appreciate it if someone could direct > me to the proper resources. I'm hoping for it to be a stupid error (as > those are easiest to fix), so please...humble me! :) Unix doesn't have printer drivers per se. It just sends bits to devices. Making sure the device driver responds to them properly is up to the applications. If you haven't installed it already, try installing GhostScript (/usr/ports/print/ghostscript6) and seeing if it has a driver for that printer. If you're up to a longer install, try /usr/ports/print/apsfilter, which will install ghostscript - among many other things - to filter postscript to your printer properly.