Eric F Crist wrote: > > Hey, > > I have an Epson EPL-6000 that I cannot get to print correctly. > > I used to use the printer under Caldera OpenLinux 2.3 just fine, but haven't > had it working since I went to FreBSD 4.0. Well, it's been a while since I set up Ghostscript by hand (and I had help -- Linux Secrets by Naba Barkakati with Slackware 3.0). I'm not sure if you have to do it by hand in FreeBSD or not. Regardless, it won't kill you. The gist of it is that you have to create a print filter, which is just a script sitting in your print queue directory (usually under /var/spool/ or /var/spool/lpd/). That filter is just a shell script that calls Ghostscript with the right arguments to produce output for your printer. These scripts are often designed to figure out what sort of a file they have as input. The simplest filters just detect the difference between PostScript, text, and raw printer data (like what you'd get if your system was a print server for Windows boxes). Once you have a decent filter created, you'd tell lpr/lpd to use it by pointing to it in your /etc/printcap file. There should be some decent information about setting all of that up somewhere in the Ghostscript documentation. > could someone either tell me or direct me to a site that can explain, in > english, how I can get my Windows NT 4.0 box to use this printer on my FreBSD > box? This is easy under Samba. I think the default smb.conf file even has printing already set up (though you should really look at the config file first). You should be able to just set up a `raw' printer in /etc/printcap that will work even if you can't get Ghostscript working. Create a spool directory (/var/spool/lpd/raw is good). Then, put something in /etc/printcap. This might do the trick raw:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/raw:\ :mx#0:\ :sh:\ :lp=/dev/lp0: However, I don't know what printer devices are named in FreeBSD. You may or may not have to change `/dev/lp0' to something else. Also, you might have to remove the `:sh:\' line. Note that all of the lines that have a backslash at the end have an immediate carriage return (no spaces on the end of those lines). -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ Don't take life too / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ seriously, you won't get \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) out alive. [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org