Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:19:40 -0800 (PST) From: Bill Tillman <btillman99@yahoo.com> To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Printing via USB Port Message-ID: <203272.55003.qm@web36506.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1002261626210.14611@wonkity.com>
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--- On Fri, 2/26/10, Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote: From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Subject: Re: Printing via USB Port To: "Bill Tillman" <btillman99@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Friday, February 26, 2010, 5:38 PM On Fri, 26 Feb 2010, Bill Tillman wrote: > =A0 > Thanks again for your valuable input. I have set up lpd printing on my ol= d FreeBSD server at least a dozen times and it became a simple routine to d= o with apsfilter.=A0Let me see if I can place all my cards in one place and= perhaps we can find the bug. I think I found it.=A0 The HL-2040 is a GDI printer, aka winprinter (aka "o= h no, one of those", aka "I guess I didn't really want to print that after = all").=A0 It won't respond to PCL, unlike the one I looked up first, the HL= -2060. Based on http://beej.us/hl2040/: =A0 % cd /usr/local/libexec =A0 % cp ps2pcl ps2hl1250 Change the line in ps2hl1250 to: /usr/local/bin/gs -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=3Dhl1250 -sOutputFile=3D- - =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0= =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 ^^^^^^ And change the if=3D line in the printcap to refer to ps2hl1250. (And remember, buying winprinters just encourages them to make more.) -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA =A0 Warren, =A0 Once again many thanks, but that is one of the first things I tried. By che= cking ghostcript's drivers =A0 #gs -h | grep hl =A0 I found many drivers for the HL-12xx models. I have used this in my previou= s setup with my old parallel server. I actually tried what you suggested an= d it only worked when using the parallel cable, not the USB. For some reaso= n the USB connection on this and any other FreeBSD server I connect to is D= OA for printing. I run mouse and keyboard via USB. But these print jobs are= lining up in the queue and just sit there no matter how many times I recon= nect the printer, or reboot it or reboot the computer. And once again I'm s= eeing two instances of lpd running when I only launched it from the command= line once, no entry in /etc/rc.conf. =A0 =A0 BigDell# ps -ax | grep lpd =A01311=A0 ??=A0 Is=A0=A0=A0=A0 0:00.00 lpd =A01329=A0 ??=A0 IE=A0=A0=A0=A0 0:00.00 lpd BigDell# lpq no entries BigDell# lpc status all lp: =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 queuing is enabled =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 printing is enabled =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 no entries in spool area =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 printer idle BigDell# This just don't make sense and I hope when we find it it's something we can= laugh about.=0A=0A=0A
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