On Fri, 26 Feb 2010, Bill Tillman wrote:
Thanks again for your valuable input. I have set up lpd printing on my
old FreeBSD server at least a dozen times and it became a simple
routine to do with apsfilter. Let me see if I can place all my cards
in one place and perhaps we can find the bug.
I think I found it. The HL-2040 is a GDI printer, aka winprinter (aka
"oh no, one of those", aka "I guess I didn't really want to print that
after all"). It won't respond to PCL, unlike the one I looked up first,
the HL-2060.
Based on http://beej.us/hl2040/:
% cd /usr/local/libexec
% cp ps2pcl ps2hl1250
Change the line in ps2hl1250 to:
/usr/local/bin/gs -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=hl1250 -sOutputFile=- -
^^^^^^
And change the if= 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_______________________________________________
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