On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 18:59 -0700, Warren Block wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Mark Kane wrote: > > > Hi everyone. I've been trying to get this going for quite a while, but > > got busy. I'm finally back on it now so hopefully someone may have a > > suggestion because I'm stumped. > > > > I've got a Lexmark Z52 printer shared through CUPS on the network from a > > different machine. I've also got CUPS running on the machine I am trying > > to get to print. It sees the shared printer and can use the CUPS > > interface to print a test page to the printer shared by the other computer. > > > > The problem comes when printing from this machine. Whenever trying to > > print, instead of printing the text of the document or website, it > > prints a bunch of code. Here is a short sample: > > > > ------- > > flipXY 0 eq c3x2 c4x2 eq or > > {false PickCoords } > > { /shrink c3x2 c4x2 eq > > {0} {c1x2 c4x2 sub c3x2 c4x2 sub div abs} ifelse def > > /xshrink {c4x2 sub shrink mul c4x2 add} def > > [...etc...] > > ------- > > Your network description is hard to follow, but from the description > given, the printer is attached to a Mac, and you are sending it print > jobs from a FreeBSD machine. > > What you show here is PostScript code. The Mac is receiving your > PostScript print job, but misidentifying it as a text file. > > You need to find out what the Mac is expecting, and send that. Or you > may be able to change the settings on the Mac, or maybe just add some > kind of ID string at the start of your print jobs that will help them be > properly identified as PostScript. > > -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Postscript files are often identified by a comment beginning with a "%" in the first position of the file. Try inserting a line like this at the start of the file, and see if that works. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"