On 05/14/12 23:09, Daniel Melameth wrote:
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 6:00 AM, Ralph Ellis<ralphell...@netscape.ca> wrote:
As a relative newcomer to Openbsd, I decided to write a review of the 5.1
release for Distrowatch.com from a desktop user's perspective.
Openbsd has come a long way in terms of improved hardware support and ease
of setup and my experience has been very positive.
The review is at:
http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20120514#feature
FWIW, I believe your Brother printer will emulate PostScript OOTB--and
OpenBSD, and most UNIXes, supports this natively. All I needed to do
to print to my Brother printer at home is start lpd add the following
to /etc/printcap:
# Brother HL-5370DW
rp|brother|brotherhl-5370dw|remote line printer:\
:lp=:rm=printer:rp=lp:sd=/var/spool/output:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:
Hi Daniel,
Does this method require that I be connected via a parallel port? My
computer does not have a parallel port.
For some reason, even though dmeg sees the printer at ulpt0, I could not
get cups to see the printer connected to my usb port.
I remembered that KDE3 has a effective utility for scanning for network
printers and so I switched to an ethernet connection.
The HL-5170DN printer handles postscript quite well but I find that
printing is faster with the CUPS+Gutenprint driver for some reason.
Thanks for the sample printcap file.
Ralph Ellis
