printing to Kyocera FS-1030D

[Ryan Coleman]

Screw off. Top posting is actually a default in the mail software community.
And I will always do it.

More annoying: Extra spaces and not removing the cruff from the bottom of emails.
And condescending asshats.

On Aug 3, 2011, at 1:08 PM, Robert Bonomi wrote:

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> Pierre, please do not 'top post' replies -- it makes the 'logic' of the
> message hard to follow,  to wit:
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> A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
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> Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
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> A: Top-posting.
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> Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
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> See also _RFC 1855_ for the closest thing to an 'official' stance on the matter.
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>> Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 13:10:03 -0400
>> From: Pierre-Luc Drouin <pldrouin at pldrouin.net>
>> To: Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh at onetel.com>
>> Cc: User Questions <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
>> Subject: Re: printing to Kyocera FS-1030D
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I would install CUPS and use the PPD file recommended on openprinting.org
>> (http://www.openprinting.org/printer/Kyocera/Kyocera-FS-1030D).
> 
> This is -guaranteed- to be *ineffective*.
> 
> Apparently you missed the mention in the OP's original message that the
> printer is running in 'PCL' emulation mode, and that he _cannot_ change
> that.
> 
>> Cheers, Pierre-Luc
>> 
>> On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh at onetel.com> 
>> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> before I use up too many trees experimenting, could some kind soul tell 
>>> me how I can get OpenOffice to print to this printer. This is the first 
>>> time I have tried to get anything printed from FreeBSD.
>>> 
>>> I'm following the handbook. I think the basic setup is ok, I can get 
>>> text printed using eg
>>> # lptest 20 5 | lpr -Plp
>>> 
>>> If I try to print the postscript program given in the handbook
>>> %!PS
>>> 100 100 moveto 300 300 lineto stroke
>>> 310 310 moveto /Helvetica findfont 12 scalefont setfont
>>> (Is this thing working?) show
>>> showpage
>>> 
>>> # cat <ps-file> |lpr -Plp
>>> 
>>> I get the whole text of the file not just "Is this thing working?".
>>> 
>>> The printer has various emulations, it is set to PCL 6 and I can't 
>>> change it
>>> (not my printer)
>>> 
>>> Printing from OpenOffice just produces screeds of garbage, starting 
>>> with %!PS so I presume the text of the postscript that OO has produced.
>>> 
>>> The bit I'm stuck on is in section 9.4.1.3 Simulating PostScript on Non 
>>> PostScript Printers (which I presume is what I need), specifically 
>>> setting the device. gs -h doesn't show this printer or any Kyocera 
>>> printer. So either what should I set Device to, or how do I get 
>>> ghostscript to know about this printer?
>>> 
>>> I'm using 8.1-RELEASE, openoffice.org-3.2.1, ghostscript8-8.71_6
>>> 
>>> thanks
>>> 
>>> Chris