Samsung SCX-4200 printer

[Harald Weis]

On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 01:01:57PM -0500, Alex Goncharov wrote:
> ,--- You/Harald (Thu, 8 Jan 2009 12:11:27 +0100) ----*
> | > Try to install the cupsys, cupsys-bsd, cupsomatic-ppd and foomatic-db
> | > ports and take a look at this link:
> | 
> | None of these exist in the FreeBSD port index (/usr/ports/INDEX-7)
> 
> So, you've now looked :-)

Oh, yes, sorry, foomatic-db does indeed exist.

> 
> I've had good experience with foomatic use for most various printers
> in the past and wanted to give you a pointer to that package, no
> promises, since you didn't seem to be familiar it.
> 
> I didn't have the printing packages installed in the machine I sent
> the original mail from, so could not check the correct package names
> -- I can check what I have now:
> 
> ----------------------------------------
> $ pkg_info -L foomatic-db-20070124_1| grep -ic samsung
> 62
> 
> $ pkg_info -L foomatic-db-20070124_1| grep -ic scx
> 0
> ----------------------------------------
> 
> So, that printer is not yet in BSD foomatic-db.
> 
> | 
> | Refers only to Linux :-(
> 
> I know -- but I often used Linux-based advice as a clue for solving
> printing problems on FreeBSD.
> 
> Sorry this didn't help you (and I am sure you saw this
> http://www.openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Samsung-SCX-4200).

Yes, I did.

Harald
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