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From: fm@.aut.tu-harburg.de (Frank Meissner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: HP Deskjet printers
Date: 5 Dec 1995 18:06:18 GMT
Organization: Technische Universtaet Hamburg-Harburg
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Hi,
William Gianopoulos {84718} (wag@swl.msd.ray.com) wrote:
: I have an HP Deskjet 540 printer that I would like to use under FreeBSD.
: Where can I get a driver or output filter which would allow this to be used
: as a text printer?
The fist thing to get you HP540 working is to set it to polled mode
by "lptcontrol -p" command. The printer is too fast in some way
with its control lines, so that the impulses get lost and the printer
prints *very* slow. Second there is a filter which is called "apsfilter",
which works very nice. I have had some problems with additional garbage
prints to my intended prints. But after I had changed the "\c"-commands
to "\n"-commands (in apsfilter script) it work fine. But do not ask me
why I have chosen "\n". I just did that by chance and seem to have found
the correct way to drive the HP540.
Frank
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_/_/_/_/ _/_/ _/_/ Frank Meissner
_/ _/ _/_/ _/ TU Hamburg-Harburg
_/_/_/ _/ _/ AG Automatisierungstechnik
_/ _/ _/ tel: ++49 40 72523041
_/ _/ _/ e-mail: meissner@tu-harburg.d400.de
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