From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 28 11:56:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net (scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01D1037B405 for ; Tue, 28 May 2002 11:56:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sdn-ar-007dcwashp303.dialsprint.net ([63.178.90.169] helo=moo.holy.cow) by scaup.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 17Cm8k-0003GQ-00; Tue, 28 May 2002 11:56:15 -0700 Received: by moo.holy.cow (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 6012250BC8; Tue, 28 May 2002 14:58:50 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 14:58:50 -0400 From: parv To: gjh292@263.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to Configure a HP Laserjet Printer to Use Message-ID: <20020528185850.GA50900@moo.holy.cow> Mail-Followup-To: gjh292@263.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG in message , wrote Jianhong Gao thusly... > > I've just configured a HP Laserjet 5L to my computer running > Freebsd 4.2 ... When I run "lptest > /dev/lpt0", the output is > just a line of characters including something untelligible. After > setupping /etc/printcap(without any filter specified) and > invoking lpd, "lptest | lpr" get the same result. no clue... > When I try to print sth. to it, using "ps | lpr" or "myls > | lpr" or "lpr -r myfile", though the paper is fed in, nothing is > printed. in last case you should have gotten something. was lpd running while you did "ps | lpr"? any errors in lpd error log? this error log file is specified in the printcap. > Is there some special filter I should use to make my HP laserjet > printer work correctly? If so, what's it and where can I get it? assuming hp 5l is a ps (postscript) printer... i too have a ps printer (lexmark optra e310) and i use enscript (available from ports) as the input filter. enscript converts non-ps, non-pcl (, and perhaps non-pdf) files to ps before printing. i happened to see mention of hp 5l laserjet in ghostscript-gnu port; see if that would offer any additional benefit over enscript. - parv -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message