Options for emulators/wine?

[Chris Rees]

On 28 September 2011 10:49, Thomas Mueller <mueller6727 at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> from Chris Rees <crees at freebsd.org>:
>
>> Some rather strange printers will be recognised by umass before ugen
>> recognises them; you have to plug it in before umass is loaded or it
>> becomes a mass storage device.
>
>> I'm not sure that the Windows printer stack is included in Wine, why
>> would you rather do that than use CUPS? The gutenprint drivers are
>> often of a higher quality than the manufacturer's provided ones, and
>> they install less trash.
>
> I need umass, otherwise USB sticks and other USB disks are inaccessible.

I think you've misunderstood me.

Power on (without umass), plug in printer, watch console for ulpt0 and
THEN kldload umass.

> Should the printer be plugged in and powered on at boot time?

Yes. See above :)

> I am already trying unsuccessfully to build hplip to access the printer in the Unix way, without wine.
>
> With wine, I might want to try another way, using MS-Windows drivers if possible.
>
> Building hplip failed due to a broken dependency, py-reportlab2
>
> BROKEN=   does not package
> (quoting from the Makefile)
>
>

I seriously doubt you'll have any luck with hp drivers under wine :)

Unless HP differs seriously from the Epsons I've always used, you can
just use vanilla CUPS with them.

Bear in mind, I'm no expert on HP printers; I'm only replying because
no-one else has jumped in :)

Chris