On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Darren Spruell wrote:
> We have this printer set up to print to from the network and I have
> printed to it by IP address before. It is connected to a Windows server
> but I would like to print directly to it by IP from my fbsd 4.7 box.
>
> I have installed the cups-base, cups-pstoraster, and ghostscript-gnu
> packages. Afterwards I looked through the Handbook but didn't see
> anything that cleared up the process of configuring this printer.
It's a PostScript printer, so you shouldn't need ghostscript. I can't
help you with CUPS, never tried it. Good old ordinary printcap entries
work fine:
lpraw:\
:lp=:\
:sh:\
:mx#0:\
:rm=laser:\
:rp=raw:\
:sd=/var/spool/output/lpd/lpraw:\
:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:
After creating the spool directory (sd=) and entering an IP address for
"laser" in /etc/hosts, this works fine. This is just for sending raw
PostScript output, of course. The queue name is lpraw, so you'd print
to it with
# lpr -Plpraw postscriptfile.ps
My lp queue runs through a little Perl program that detects PostScript
and passes it through. Text is formatted with enscript and then
printed. I can post the whole setup if you'd like.
-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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