Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 13:01:05 -0800 (PST) From: Bill Tillman <btillman99@yahoo.com> To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com> Subject: Re: RESOLVED: Printing via USB Port Message-ID: <222727.97456.qm@web36505.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1002271312100.18726@wonkity.com>
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--- On Sat, 2/27/10, Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote: From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Subject: Re: RESOLVED: Printing via USB Port To: "Bill Tillman" <btillman99@yahoo.com> Cc: "Robert Bonomi" <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Saturday, February 27, 2010, 2:26 PM On Sat, 27 Feb 2010, Bill Tillman wrote: > Okay guys this is finally working. I found the answer here: > > http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?p=64508 > > This didn't come up in my other searches. > > This morning I put in "freebsd hl2040 usb" into my yahoo search and this came up. Didn't you get my last message yesterday? It had that very link. > Seems this guy got it to work by using unlpt0 not ulpt0. I had tried this before and was using the ifhp filter but that didn't work. The printer is not HP or even PCL, so ifhp is likely not the right filter. > So I did this with /etc/printcap: > > lp|HL2040|Brother HL-2040:\ > :lp=/dev/unlpt0:\ > :af=/home/bill/hl1250.ppd:\ > :if=/usr/local/bin/foomatic-rip:\ > :lf=/var/log/lpd/hl2040.log:\ > :sh:sd=/var/spool/lpd/laser: It was probably the unlpt0 device that cured it. Could you verify whether the plain lpd entry with the unlpt0 device works? lp:\ :lp=/dev/unlpt0:\ :sh:\ :mx#0:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\ :if=/usr/local/libexec/ps2hl1250: \ :lf=/var/log/lpd-errs: -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA Sorry to keep beating this dead horse but I forgot to mention that this also means that I didn't need the ppd file either. The ps2hl1250 takes care of everything through ghostscript. One less thing to worry about in the setup. I guess the only thing left to do with this is to figure out an if/then module to decide whether the file is postscript or just plain text and then print just plain text without using the ghostscript portion. The ifhp filter did this and I will look there for ideas. Once in a blue moon I might actually print out some plain text files from one of the FreeBSD severs and I will need this functionality. I'm going to write my HOWTO on this and shutup for now.home | help
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