Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 23:18:08 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Predrag Punosevac" <punosevac@math.arizona.edu>, "David Kelly" <dkelly@hiwaay.net> Cc: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: DJ500 dead after >= 16 years. Message-ID: <BMEDLGAENEKCJFGODFOCOEGGCFAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <47BC8CAE.8010200@math.arizona.edu>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Predrag > Punosevac > Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 12:25 PM > To: David Kelly > Cc: Gary Kline; FreeBSD Mailing List > Subject: Re: DJ500 dead after >= 16 years. > > > David Kelly wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 12:02:25AM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > > > >> Nutshell, I'd like anyone's ideas/experiences with some of these > >> new HP/<<< or whateverbrand>>> printers. I wouldn't *mind* if I > >> could scan in text from a techy paper into HTML or PDF or text. > >> But mostly, like 99.44% plain black text. My old deskjet used > >> gs as a filter to print PostScript. Do we have any such plugin > >> support, or are printers still roll-your-own? [FWIW, I can't > >> seem to get CUPS working... altho it maay be my misssing > >> /dev/lpt0.] > >> > > > > > Why don't you check http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting for > the most comprehensive information available. > > Just couple a comments. I would keep native LPD spooling system instead > installing CUPS unless you need to use something > like HPLIP drivers. You do not need CUPS for the hplip drivers, you can use lpd if you want. To be perfectly clear on this, all that CUPS is, is 4 things: Spool manager - LPD does this Speaks IPP protocol - LPD also does this except it speaks LPR protocol Easy user interface for the options needed by some of the more complex filters. - lpd does NOT do this BUT, you can do it by writing your own filter script and coding the options you want into it. Note that most options are set once and forget, so CUPS really doesen't add much here. CUPS uses Postscript PPD files to automagically generate the webpage the user fills out to select these options. web-interface for job mangement - well who needs this for a personal printer attached to a workstation? The reason CUPS is used so much is that it dummifies the chain of hooking together programs into a black box. So, people who don't understand what is going on can setup a printer by clicking buttons. That is fine if your printer model is supported. But if it doesen't work or if the model is a new one that the cups people haven't quite yet got around to testing with, or nobody has written a .PPD file for it, you have to understand what is going on then. I've posted the following before, but here's the instructions I use for setting up my C84 without CUPS, so you can see how this kind of thing works. They are just a bit old but still work if you change the version #s. The setup uses the IJS output from Ghostscript and feeds it into gimpprint. The HPLIP scheme works exactly the same way except that instead of gimpprint, you use the hpijs driver along with the required options: 1) setup print queue Add the following to the end of /etc/printcap: lp-epson|Epson C84 Color printer:\ :sh:\ :lp=/dev/lpt0:sd=/var/spool/output/lp-epson:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:mx=0:\ :of=/usr/local/bin/epsonfilter:rw: lp-epson-raw|Epson C84 Color Printer - raw for Windows systems:\ :sh:\ :lp=/dev/lpt0:sd=/var/spool/output/lp-epson-raw:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:\ :mx#0:rw: Create the print queues: cd /var/spool/output mkdir lp-epson mkdir lp-epson-raw Add in access for the local systems cat /etc/hosts.lpd # $FreeBSD: src/etc/hosts.lpd,v 1.4 1999/08/27 23:23:42 peter Exp $ # # See lpd(8) #machine.domain tedwin2k.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com 192.168.1.60 tedsdesk.ipinc.net ip-port-rtr1.ipinc.net sunrise.ipinc.net nat-rtr# Run some test prints through the queues: cd /etc ls -l | lpr -P lp-text Send a test print page from the Windows 2K workstation via lpr to the print queue on the BSD box (do a chmod 664 on the lock file in the lp-epson-raw queue, since network LPR doesen't set the mask up properly per submitted bug) 2) Install the tools to image a printjob for the Epson, as follows: cd /usr/ports/print/gimp-print make WITHOUT_CUPS=yes cd work/gimp-print-4.2.7/src/escputil ./escputil -i -u -r /dev/lpt0 (checks ink levels) ./escputil -n -u -r /dev/lpt0 (prints nozzle alignment) (try some other commands to see if the level of support is better) cd ../../../../ make WITHOUT_CUPS=yes install cd ../ghostscript-gnu make install Deselect all the printers, leave in stp and ijs driver, as well as all the X-windows drivers and the jpg and other image drivers. test the ghostscript install: cd /root man -t which > which.ps gs -dBATCH -sDEVICE=jpeg -sOutputFile=test.jpg which.ps open test.jpg in a browser and see if the page is there Now test gimpprint and ghostscript: first manually with the command, gs -sDEVICE=ijs -sIjsServer=/usr/local/bin/ijsgimpprint -sDeviceManufacturer =EPSON -sDeviceModel=escp2-c84 -sIjsParams=Quality=720x360sw,InkType=CMYK ,MediaType=Plain -dIjsUseOutputFD -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sOutputFile=test.out /usr/local/share/ghostscript/7.07/examples/colorcir.ps lpr -P lp-epson-raw test.out Create the file /usr/local/bin/epsonfilter with the following contents: #!/bin/sh # # Script that runs gimp-print for the Epson # /usr/local/bin/gs -q -sDEVICE=ijs -sIjsServer=/usr/local/bin/ijsgimpprint -s DeviceManufacturer=EPSON -sDeviceModel=escp2-c84 -sIjsParams=Quality=720x 360sw,InkType=CMYK,MediaType=Plain -dIjsUseOutputFD -dNOPAUSE -dNOBATCH -dSA FER -sOutputFile=- - test with firefox and use the printer lpr -P lp-epson test PS file: /usr/local/share/ghostscript/7.07/examples/colorcir.ps Ted
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