* Bryan on Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 10:38:57AM -0500:
> > In my case, the printcap recipe looks like this:
> >
> > | brother|Brother MFC-9840CDW:\
> > |
> > :lp=:rm=172.23.13.150:rp=BRN001BA968596A_AT:sd=/var/spool/output/brother:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs
> > Obviously, you have to replace IP address and
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 09:53, Stefan Unterweger wrote:
> I know this thread is very old, but I thought this might be useful for
> the archives -- and maybe for the original poster as well.
>
As the person who wrote this, I thank you for posting this. I gave up
trying to get lpd working, and ins
I know this thread is very old, but I thought this might be useful for
the archives -- and maybe for the original poster as well.
* Bryan on Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 10:48:58PM -0600:
> it was easier to copy the file to a Windows box and print. But I'm
> tired of having to do this, and have begun res
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 8:59 AM, Manuel Giraud
wrote:
> Jacob Meuser writes:
>
>> foomatic is pretty easy to set up.
>
> Thread hijacker here. I tried to setup a lpd/foomatic for a printer over
> network and always end-up with this kind of message in
> /var/log/lpd-errs:
> --8<---cut h
Jacob Meuser writes:
> On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 03:59:02PM +0100, Manuel Giraud wrote:
>> Jacob Meuser writes:
>>
>> > foomatic is pretty easy to set up.
>>
>> Thread hijacker here. I tried to setup a lpd/foomatic for a printer over
>> network and always end-up with this kind of message in
>> /
On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 03:59:02PM +0100, Manuel Giraud wrote:
> Jacob Meuser writes:
>
> > foomatic is pretty easy to set up.
>
> Thread hijacker here. I tried to setup a lpd/foomatic for a printer over
> network and always end-up with this kind of message in
> /var/log/lpd-errs:
> Well. Searc
Jacob Meuser writes:
> foomatic is pretty easy to set up.
Thread hijacker here. I tried to setup a lpd/foomatic for a printer over
network and always end-up with this kind of message in
/var/log/lpd-errs:
--8<---cut here---start->8---
Feb 1 13:46:29 K lpd[654
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 01:51:15PM -0800, Sean Kamath wrote:
> %!
> newpath clippath stroke showpage
>
> These four commands were the smallest PostScript I could figure out to send to
> a printer to print something without burning up tons of toner. It should
> produce a small line all the way aro
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 09:37:24AM +, Dennis den Brok wrote:
> Jan Stary schrieb:
> > "fo" just forces a form feed;
> > it doesn't "turn PS support on/off" or whatever.
>
> Certainly not, but it seems the printer is picky about recognizing
> PostScript as such. I don't know what data actually
Otto Moerbeek schrieb:
> printcap sh is your friend.
It is indeed, thank you.
--
Dennis den Brok
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 09:37:24AM +, Dennis den Brok wrote:
> Jan Stary schrieb:
> > "fo" just forces a form feed;
> > it doesn't "turn PS support on/off" or whatever.
>
> Certainly not, but it seems the printer is picky about recognizing
> PostScript as such. I don't know what data actuall
Jan Stary schrieb:
> "fo" just forces a form feed;
> it doesn't "turn PS support on/off" or whatever.
Certainly not, but it seems the printer is picky about recognizing
PostScript as such. I don't know what data actually hits the wire,
maybe there is some bogus data sent before the actual PostScr
On Jan 30 19:30:46, Bryan wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 15:51, Sean Kamath wrote:
> > On Jan 30, 2011, at 12:06 PM, patrick keshishian wrote:
> >>> It supports Postscript, and even has it's own lpd running so that you
> >>> can FTP files to it to print.
> >>
> >> You keep saying and thinking th
On Jan 30 21:47:40, Dennis den Brok wrote:
> patrick keshishian schrieb:
> > You keep saying and thinking that it supports post script. It does
> > not. Otherwise feeding it a postscript file would print the document,
> > not the postscript text/source.
>
> This may actually depend on the configu
On Jan 30 10:23:29, Bryan wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 10:10, Christian Weisgerber
> wrote:
> > patrick keshishian wrote:
> >
> >> I'm not sure your printer support Postscript. It supports PCL-6 and
> >> BR-Script 3 (whatever the hell the latter may be)
> >
> > It's PostScript 3, but Brother
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 15:51, Sean Kamath wrote:
> On Jan 30, 2011, at 12:06 PM, patrick keshishian wrote:
>>> It supports Postscript, and even has it's own lpd running so that you
>>> can FTP files to it to print.
>>
>> You keep saying and thinking that it supports post script. It does
>> not. O
On Jan 30, 2011, at 12:06 PM, patrick keshishian wrote:
>> It supports Postscript, and even has it's own lpd running so that you
>> can FTP files to it to print.
>
> You keep saying and thinking that it supports post script. It does
> not. Otherwise feeding it a postscript file would print the docu
patrick keshishian schrieb:
> You keep saying and thinking that it supports post script. It does
> not. Otherwise feeding it a postscript file would print the document,
> not the postscript text/source.
This may actually depend on the configuration. For instance, a
Kyocera Mita FS1030-D, without
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 7:30 AM, Bryan wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 01:17, patrick keshishian
wrote:
>> I'm not sure your printer support Postscript. It supports PCL-6 and
>> BR-Script 3 (whatever the hell the latter may be)
>>
>> Try using gs to convert your postscript files to pcl3 and feed
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 12:57:20PM -0500, Ted Unangst wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 11:48 PM, Bryan wrote:
> > I have been hampered with this for a few years now, and at most times,
> > it was easier to copy the file to a Windows box and print. But I'm
> > tired of having to do this, and have
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 10:47, Christian Weisgerber
wrote:
> Bryan wrote:
>
>> I recently bought a Brother 9840CDW, which supports lpd and postscript.
>
>> B It's valid as of the 24th of January 2011. B I have googled several
>> sites, and found a site that was able to help me get a running confi
On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 11:48 PM, Bryan wrote:
> I have been hampered with this for a few years now, and at most times,
> it was easier to copy the file to a Windows box and print. But I'm
> tired of having to do this, and have begun researching how to print to
> a printer on the network. I rece
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 10:10, Christian Weisgerber
wrote:
> patrick keshishian wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure your printer support Postscript. It supports PCL-6 and
>> BR-Script 3 (whatever the hell the latter may be)
>
> It's PostScript 3, but Brother didn't buy the firmware from Adobe
> and used a d
Bryan wrote:
> I recently bought a Brother 9840CDW, which supports lpd and postscript.
> It's valid as of the 24th of January 2011. I have googled several
> sites, and found a site that was able to help me get a running config.
> This meant I was able to successfully send something over my ne
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 01:17, patrick keshishian wrote:
> I'm not sure your printer support Postscript. It supports PCL-6 and
> BR-Script 3 (whatever the hell the latter may be)
>
> Try using gs to convert your postscript files to pcl3 and feeding those to
> lpr.
>
> $ gs -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pcl3
patrick keshishian wrote:
> I'm not sure your printer support Postscript. It supports PCL-6 and
> BR-Script 3 (whatever the hell the latter may be)
It's PostScript 3, but Brother didn't buy the firmware from Adobe
and used a different implementation.
--
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber
To test, try manually converting whatever you want to print with
ghostscript, and then printing the result.
I found that the filter script included with ghostscript didn't work,
but with some hacking I got it to work. It does some horrible shell
hacks to "autoconfig", and if you just edit in the
I'm not sure your printer support Postscript. It supports PCL-6 and
BR-Script 3 (whatever the hell the latter may be)
Try using gs to convert your postscript files to pcl3 and feeding those to
lpr.
$ gs -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pcl3 -sOutputFile=/tmp/junk%d.pcl3 letter.ps
$ lpr /tmp/junk*.pcl3
--patri
*tried sending this to the "newbies" list, but was kicked back*
I have been hampered with this for a few years now, and at most times,
it was easier to copy the file to a Windows box and print. But I'm
tired of having to do this, and have begun researching how to print to
a printer on the network
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