Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2011 23:29:23 +0200 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh@onetel.com> Cc: User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: printing to Kyocera FS-1030D Message-ID: <20110804212923.GA15233@slackbox.erewhon.net> In-Reply-To: <4E397A48.8070600@onetel.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 05:41:44PM +0100, Chris Whitehouse wrote: > Hi, > > before I use up too many trees experimenting, could some kind soul tell > me how I can get OpenOffice to print to this printer. This is the first > time I have tried to get anything printed from FreeBSD. > > I'm following the handbook. I think the basic setup is ok, I can get > text printed using eg > # lptest 20 5 | lpr -Plp > > If I try to print the postscript program given in the handbook > %!PS > 100 100 moveto 300 300 lineto stroke > 310 310 moveto /Helvetica findfont 12 scalefont setfont > (Is this thing working?) show > showpage > > # cat <ps-file> |lpr -Plp > > I get the whole text of the file not just "Is this thing working?". > > The printer has various emulations, it is set to PCL 6 and I can't > change it (not my printer) That is a pity. Just so you know, if you'd be able to switch it to PostScript (of which it seems capable) you'd be more or less done. > Printing from OpenOffice just produces screeds of garbage, starting with > %!PS so I presume the text of the postscript that OO has produced. Yes. > The bit I'm stuck on is in section 9.4.1.3 Simulating PostScript on Non > PostScript Printers (which I presume is what I need), specifically > setting the device. gs -h doesn't show this printer or any Kyocera > printer. So either what should I set Device to, or how do I get > ghostscript to know about this printer? There are several possible drivers you could use; pcl3 pxlmono pxlcolor. The gutenprint (a.k.a. gimp-print) driver also supports your printer directly. I would start with the pcl3 driver if you want to go with the standard lpd. However, I'd recommend that you take the time and install and configure CUPS. > I'm using 8.1-RELEASE, openoffice.org-3.2.1, ghostscript8-8.71_6 Do you know that ghostscript9 is in ports? Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk47DzMACgkQEnfvsMMhpyVSBQCfXPw0XewWYfetQjYemzi5b4ya d2gAniSS2S/ZhHW6vyx8gy0wqMQ2shJT =sk8P -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----home | help
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