On Sun, Jan 02, 2011 at 12:26:38AM +0000, Jacob Meuser wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 01, 2011 at 02:07:02PM -0600, Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote:
> > Jacob Meuser <jakemsr () sdf ! lonestar ! org> wrote
> > at 2011-01-01 19:34:40:
> >
> >
> > > On Sat, Jan 01, 2011 at 07:03:52AM -0600, Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote:
> > > > First, Happy New Year!
> > > >
> > > > I resolved last week to stop using Windows to print from my OpenBSD
> > > > machine, so I re-read man pages for and re-tried CUPS, lpd,
> > > > foomatic, etc. As it stands now, here is my printcap:
> > > >
> > > > # $OpenBSD: printcap,v 1.4 2003/03/28 21:32:30 jmc Exp $
> > > >
> > > > #lp|local line
> > > > printer:lp=/dev/lp:sd=/var/spool/output:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:
> > > > lp|5510:\
> > > > > lp=/dev/ulpt0:\
> > > > > af=/etc/foomatic/HPOJ.ppd:\
>
> where did HPOJ.ppd come from?
fwiw, I just tried with my HP officejet 4500, to see if it prints with ulpt
and lpd on my laptop (I normally use ugen and cups on my desktop... I
need ugen for the scanner).
I installed hpijs and foomatic-filters packages. this pulled in a2ps
and ghostscript.
located the ppd I want, which is
/usr/local/share/foomatic/db/source/PPD/HP/hp-officejet_4500_g510g-m-hpijs.ppd.gz
I had to dig for that. well, 'pkg_info -L hpijs | grep 4500' is how I
found it. not sure why 'foomatic-ppdfile -P 4500' did not find it.
I think it should. anyway ...
$ zcat
/usr/local/share/foomatic/db/source/PPD/HP/hp-officejet_4500_g510g-m-hpijs.ppd.gz
> hpoj4500_hpijs.ppd
$ sudo cp hpoj4500_hpijs.ppd /etc/foomatic
$ sudo mg /etc/printcap
$ cat /etc/printcap
# $OpenBSD: printcap,v 1.4 2003/03/28 21:32:30 jmc Exp $
#lp|local line printer:\
# :lp=/dev/lp:sd=/var/spool/output:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:
#rp|remote line printer:\
# :lp=:rm=music.humppa.hu:rp=lp:sd=/var/spool/output:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:
# basically copied from local/share/doc/pkg-readmes/foomatic-filters
# but add the 'sh' to not get the "burst page header"
lp:\
:lp=/dev/ulpt0:\
:af=/etc/foomatic/hpoj4500_hpijs.ppd:\
:if=/usr/local/bin/foomatic-rip:\
:sd=/var/spool/output:\
:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:\
:sh:
$ sudo lpd
$ lpr bin/aup
and viola, aup, a 10 line shell script, is printed on paper
moral of the story: use the right PPD file. how did I know which one
to use? well, I know ijs works with ghostscript, and I've used the
ijs drivers from gutenprint with lpd. seems to me the most likely to
work, since ghostscript is a classical lpd filter.
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