cups issue, unsupported format

[Andrew Falanga]

On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 4:03 AM, Michael Powell <nightrecon at verizon.net>wrote:

> af300wsm at gmail.com wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm working on getting cups working and I've installed the "hplip" port
> > and the cups program used that to install the printer. At least, there
> was
> > an "HPLIP" in a list in one of the pages during the setup. My printer is
> > an old HP LaserJet 4+ which I've connected through the parallel port. My
> > URI for the printer is parallel:/dev/lp0. When I went to do the test page
> > I got this error, "Unsupported format 'application/postscript'." Here's
> > the problem, I chose a driver which, though I don't remember the full
> > string in cups, was a 4/5 PCL driver. So, why is it trying to print using
> > postscript?
> >
>
> It's been a while since I've done a virgin cups install so I'm not real
> current on what it might be like now. You start out with installing the
> /usr/ports/print/cups metaport and this should pull in a few other sub
> ports as dependencies.
>
> The port cups-pstoraster is what coverts postscript print output into
> PCL, utilizing (IIRC) one of the ghostscript ports. Perhaps your install
> may be incomplete. In the past I've just installed the metaport and it
> happily sucked everything else in automagically.
>
> -Mike
>
>
>
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Truly sad that it took  me this long to get to this,  but thanks for the
tip.  I installed that port and everything indeed does work much better.
Took me some doing but I've finally got my LJ4+ printing.  Cool!  Now,
though, I've got to go and buy a new toner/drum :-(.

Andy

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