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From: "siefke_listen@×××.de" <siefke_listen@×××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Brother Printer
Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2016 10:16:40
Message-Id: 20161209111618.d7a6f17a988ae912c485d7df@web.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Brother Printer by Bertram Scharpf
1 On Thu, 8 Dec 2016 22:02:51 +0100
2 Bertram Scharpf <lists@×××××××××××××××.de> wrote:
3
4 > I have a Brother MFC 7420. Yet, it's not connected to my
5 > Gentoo but to a FreeBSD box. There, I completely ignored the
6
7 Really on FreeBSD? Wow a few years ago I work with FreeBSD and
8 on mailinglist they not could help to become running. That's
9 why I going to Gentoo.
10
11 > recommended drivers. I configured lpd (/etc/printcap) to
12 > first pipe the PostScript/PDF documents through a
13 > Ghostscript command. The only real problem was to find the
14 > proper device driver (ljet2p).
15 >
16 > gs -q -dBATCH -dPARANOIDSAFER -dQUIET -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=ljet2p -r600 -sOutputFile=- -
17 >
18 > Then I wrap around this a simple self-written PJL frame.
19 >
20 > For about 8 years, though not printing too much, I never had
21 > any problem.
22 >
23 > You can have my PJL generator if you want (It's in Ruby).
24
25 Yes thanks if you like to share.
26
27 Silvio
28 --
29 Silvio Siefke <siefke_listen@×××.de>

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