Trying for a duplex printer

[Joakim Fogelberg]

On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 6:43 PM, Chuck Robey <chuckr at chuckr.org> wrote:
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>  I have been scouring all the data I can, to find printers that do duplex
>  printing (that means doublesided printing).  I found 3 models, but two of them
>  (the HP C7280 and the Canon PIXMA MX850) have no public drivers I can find.  The
>  third, which is the Epson RX680, seems to be supported via drivers from Avasys
>  (http://avasys.jp/hp/menu000000900/hpg000000859.htm) called PIPS drivers, but
>  while there is are ports for various versions of PIPS in the print dir of ports,
>  and I can find that the Avasys site lists supporting the RX680, I have two problems:
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>  1) I can't determine which (if any) of the PIPS ports support the RX680, and
>  2) right now, none of them build because of an error you get about a
>    linuxwrapper not handling symbol versioning.
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>  Is there any way to rely on any FreeBSD port to be able to use the RX680 from
>  Epson?

Have you tried print/gutenprint ?

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Joakim Fogelberg