USB Printer

[Mike Meyer]

In <200304011736.50814.fallenbr at uol.com.br>, Konrad Scorciapino <fallenbr at uol.com.br> typed:
> > What did you try sending to /dev/ulpt0 that caused things to lock up?
> Anything I tried caused the system to lock up. Here are some examples
> konrad at localhost /home/konrad # lptest > /dev/ulpt0
> konrad at localhost /home/konrad # ls > /dev/ulpt0
> konrad at localhost /home/konrad # cat /etc/cvsupfile > /dev/ulpt0

> > > And how do I know whether my printer is a winprinter or not?
> > The standard way is by sending it flat ascii text, and seeing if it
> > prints that. If it prints the text you sent, it's not a winprinter. If
> > it does nothing, or prints gibberish, it's probably a winprinter.
> So it means that my printer is a winprinter?

Ok, I misinterpreted "system locked up" to mean your FreeBSD system
froze. From the looks of things, that's not the case - the sending
program just locks up.

It's probably a winprinter. You can use those on FreeBSD if there's a
driver for it for ghostscript. The ijs driver should support the
656C. From there, you can either install apsfilter - which will
install an a2ps port to print ascii, or install magicfilter and then
use your favorite ascii to postscript printing tool to print straight
text. I prefer enscript for that. Either one will detect various
graphics formats and automatically translate them to postscript to be
printed via ghostscript.

	<mike
-- 
Mike Meyer <mwm at mired.org>		http://www.mired.org/consulting.html
Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information.