-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Gary Jennejohn wrote: > On Wed, 07 May 2008 14:43:32 -0400 > Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [snip Kyocera FS-1030D] >> Thanks, Gary. Took me quite a while to find this baby, because it seems that >> Kyocera's main site doesn't acknowledge of the Kyocera-Mita's products. I >> finally found out that it's a fairly big monochrome laser. I rather like >> the >> color I get from the cheaper inkjets, although I sure would rather get one >> with >> a FreeBSD driver. Further, from what I could find, I couldn't tell if it >> was a >> postscript native printer, and I am dead-set against any postscript native >> printers, because I used to have one, and when compared to any innkset that >> must >> use a translator such as ghostscript, the postscript native printers are >> (or, at >> least used to be) dead slow. Maybe it took them too long to transfer big >> postscript files, or maybe it took the internal processors too long to >> translate, I dunno, but when I had one of the original old HP laserjets with >> a >> postscript cartridge, and I converted to using ghostscript about a year >> after I >> got it, I was shocked that my print rate went up about 4-5 times as fast. I >> could actually get the advertised print rates. >> > > Well, I have an ethernet card in it, so transfer times are not a problem. > > This printer _emulates_ postscript quite well. It actually supports other > modes. Here's a list from the Technical Reference manual: > > The printing systems emulate the operation of seven other printers: > HP LaserJet (mode 6) > HP 7550A (mode 8) > IBM Proprinter X24E (mode 1) > Epson LQ-850 (mode 5) > Diablo 630 (mode 2) > Standard line printer (mode 0) > KPDL (mode 9) [PostScript compatible] > > Supposedly it can do 22 ppm single sheet and 11 ppm duplex, but I've never > checked > that. > >> I suppose my next trick is to attempt to find out about glib's symbol >> versioning, enough so that it could be added to the linuxwrapper. Then (I >> hope) >> I get the PIPS driver that exists for the Epson RX680. >> > > I wasn't trying to suggest that you get a FS-1030D. I was just giving an > example of a printer which works with CUPS in duplex mode. > > IMO the next trick would be to look for a PPD file for one of the printers > you have in mind. If you find one then it would be simple to use CUPS.
Umm, I may be wrong here, but I thought the absolute minimum to get any printer working (in cups, or in any printing system whatever) was a way to get a page description language translator working (ghostscript is a good example of what I'm referring to). If you don't have a PPD, you can make one yourself, I've done that, but you can't fake out the PDL translator, right? Maybe, you meant that if you have a PPD, the chances of having that PDL translator are very, very good, is that it? I mean, well, like apsfilter doesn't need ppds at all, but it sure does need that PDL translator. > > --- > Gary Jennejohn -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIIyKpz62J6PPcoOkRAoUSAJ4yz4x+jvUJv5fSDvqFAB/JmWuJbgCdFBJI ecAWbd2R5VwTOiXl1tpCE7M= =3MS3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
