On Fri, 26 Feb 2010, Bill Tillman wrote:
This printer worked fine when I was using lpd and a parallel port.
Also the apsfilter port is broken which makes it more difficult for a
novice like me to get the correct setting for it with lpr method. So I
was really looking forward to getting cupsd working this time round.
The original lpd will work with USB printers. This will give you a
PostScript printer as the default "lp". (Following is collected from
several systems, please pardon if something was left out.)
/etc/printcap:
lp:\
:lp=/dev/ulpt0:\
:sh:\
:mx#0:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
:if=/usr/local/libexec/ps2pcl:\
:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:
Create the spool directory:
% mkdir /var/spool/lpd/lp
% chmod 770 /var/spool/lpd/lp
Create the PostScript to PCL filter (Brother HL2040 only understands
PCL):
% echo "/usr/local/bin/gs -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=ljet4 -sOutputFile=- -"
> /usr/local/libexec/ps2pcl
% chmod +x /usr/local/libexec/ps2pcl
Add lpd_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf, and start it manually this time
with just
% lpd
More detail:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/printing-intro-setup.html
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/printing-advanced.html
-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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