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From: andreas@knobel.gun.de (Andreas Klemm)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Hp laserjet 4L
Date: 19 Nov 1995 23:33:05 GMT
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Message-ID: <48oerh$1n0@knobel.gun.de>
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To: imgidata@netcom.com (Robert Fagen)
In article <imgidataDHK019.1qH@netcom.com>,
imgidata@netcom.com (Robert Fagen) writes:
>jones (jones@taz.flnet.com) wrote:
>: I have a laserjet 4. in freebsd. I have been told that you can use the
>: line printer demon to access the printer. I went through all the bs
>: uncommenting out the original printcap file inserting the directory. ok
>: all this worked also unhasshed the lp statement in the config file. All
>: this is at the defaults. Ok the system rebooted and everything seemed ok
>: untill i tried to print a file out. I used lpr filename, the file went
>: into the spooler and was qued. Ok the printer fired up and I thought it
>: was goin to print, but alas it only printed blank pages.
>
>: If anyone else has gone through this I would appreciate your
>: wisdom. Ohh the system is intel based pc.
>
>: Thanks in adv.
>: jones@taz.flnet.com
>
>
>I think the problem is CR/LF mapping. I have the same problem. I wrote
>a filter to reference in the /etc/printcap file. I hope someone else will
>follow up with a better way to deal with this, but if not, here's the
>code:
Some days ago apsfilter-4.9.2 was put into the FreeBSD
ports section. I think, this is what you need ...
Grab the ports files, type make, this will grab the "sources"
from wcarchive. After installation SETUP is called automatically,
which creates a printcap suitable for apsfilter && your printer.
After that you'll have definitively a Postscript printer ;-)
'cause apsfilter is a magic print filter ...
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