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Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 10:32:38 -0500
From: "Victor R. Cardona" <vcardona@home.com>
To: Dave Leimbach <dleimbac@earthlink.net>
Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Brother HL-1240 laser printer
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On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 08:35:22AM -0500, Dave Leimbach wrote:
> I have been trying to get my Brother HL-1240 laser printer working in
> FreeBSD.
<Snipped> 
> I have tried APSFILTER and the docs I see on the web say to use the
> laserjet ghostscript driver.  This is  USB printer and when I try to print
> the testpage my machine resets itself.
> 
> This is clearly bad behavior.
> 
> I have downloaded ghostscript 7.0 and am going to try it a little later
> today.
> 
> Can anyone help me?  I'd hate to  have to build a small linux machine as my
> printserver....

I have a parrellel port version of that printer. I use apsfilter to get
it to work. I use the ljet2p driver. Unfortunately, I am not sure how
you would go about getting a usb printer to work.

- v
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