printer/printing

I am looking for some tips on setting up my printer. It is an brother MFC-L2710DW printer. It comes with support for "PCL6, BR-Script3, PDF Version 1.7" and "LPR/LPD, Custom Raw Port/Port9100" [1]. I have a really hard time getting it to work. According to this post [2] for a similar printer...

Summary: I am trying to connect to my HP Laserjet MFP 29w. I first followed the instructions in the Handbook, 9.1 "Quick Start". The print test did not work, so I moved on to installing /print/hplip. I got stuck at the step 3 of 3 "Setup Device" screen where it asks for the PPD file. I click...

I have a FreeBSD 12.1 KDE5 Desktop which also runs a Windows 10 VM running in VirtualBox. Now I need to create a Windows 10 usb install stick to able to install Windows 10 on another computer. It seems that this can only be done with a Windows computer (it did not work with dd if=windows.iso...

Hi. I'm pretty new to FreeBSD, and I'm trying to setup a networked Brother HL2280-DW to share it to my iOS devices with AirPrint. After installing CUPS, it saw the printer right away and I added it as a generic PCL laser printer with the connection lpd://BRW0022585FE5F9/BINARY_P1. When I try...

How do I set dbus_session_bus_address, needed for printing?It's for a HP scanner/printer. The scanner part of it works with the print/hplip driver. hp-print filename.pdf error: Unable to connect to dbus session bus. org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NotSupported: Using X11 for dbus-daemon autolaunch...

Modify Printer HP_OfficeJet_5220 Error Unable to modify printer: Unable to copy PPD file D [08/Nov/2019:05:36:35 +0900] CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer ipp://localhost/printers/HP_OfficeJet_5220 D [08/Nov/2019:05:36:35 +0900] cupsdIsAuthorized: username="root" D [08/Nov/2019:05:36:35 +0900]...

I tested this using a Dell Inspiron 15r se 7520 laptop. First add these custom device rules to /etc/devfs.rules and save in order to get the correct access permissions: [system=10] add path 'unlpt*' mode 0660 group cups add path 'ulpt*' mode 0660 group cups add path 'lpt*' mode 0660 group cups...

After plugging your printer to my computer, the command I usually use to scan is as follows, yours may be different: sudo scanimage -d 'YOURDEVICEADDRESS' --mode Color --resolution 150 --progress --verbose > image.pnm -d is the device address --mode is if it is in color or not --resolution of...

In the course of installing a Brother HL-2250DN printer in 11.2 I need to install the printer device listed in dmesg that is the symbolic link to the usb printer device in /dev/usb. Could you please advise exactly which dmesg line/lines below need to replace add path 'usb/X.Y.Z' mode 0660 group...

Lately I've been contemplating on nuking my macOS partition and using FreeBSD exclusively for the foreseeable future, but one thing I need a decent printing experience. I'm wondering a few things; - How does one confirm driver support for my printer? (Canon MG5220) - Any recommended printer...

Iam having a Epson Workforce M100 Inktank printer which works in linux but not in FreeBSD. With the help of Tatsuki Makino I successfully installed and happy with the performance. With a view of helping a person in need Iam documenting this: The first post was wrt FreeBSD 12.0 RELEASE. There...

Hi everyone, I am facing problem with this package in a fresh install of Freebsd 12.0. I have a network printer hp m102w but when I've tried to run system-config-printer it shows an error like this: Traceback (most recent call last): File...

For years I've been using my trusty HP Officejet Pro K550 from both Windows & FreeBSD. Originally, the Windows drivers supplied by HP would check for expiration of ink cartridges while the FreeBSD (hplip) drivers didn't. So, whenever my cartridges expired I just kept printing from FreeBSD. Since...

Brother provides no FreeBSD drivers for their new DCP printers, so I've just managed to successfully adapt their Linux driver to work with FreeBSD CUPS and Wi-Fi connection. HOWTO Download the modified driver: http://trafyx.com/brother-dcpj772dw/brother-dcpj772dw.tgz Extract to the root...

Hi Folks, I'm having some issues adding a networked HP Officejet 6958 Printer on CUPS. Incidentally I'm running FreeBSD 12.0 release version. When going through the CUPS add-printer routine, I'm unable to find a ".ppd" for this particular series, which is HP Officejet 6950. Ive installed both...

I have installed network printer (Kyocera) configured to work with lpr (and with cups). The first print job goes almost immediately, but with each next job chance for a long lag is growing. So, if I send some fifth job to a queue I can be put waiting for several minutes! The job stays in queue...

Hi I am havig proiblems using the HP Laserjet 4250 running. Hs anyone gotten this running ? I don't want to get referred to the "Handbook" . If you don't know how to get this printer running with Freebsd, don't respond. Thanks

Hi I recently bought a Brother HL-3170CDW and frankly it's a bit of a nightmare to configure. Out of the box it is configured with DHCP but even on Windows the driver install just detected what IP address had been assigned so it would only work randomly. Now I've set up a static IP address...

Dear FreeBSD users, I am printing with stock LPD and print/hpijs which is deprecated. I don't want to use print/cups with print/hplip. Any suggestion ?

Hello. Struggling with getting my printer to work. I'm FreeBSD 11.2-STABLE , KDE Plasma 5 5.12.5 The printer I'm using is a HP Deskjet 2050. I've installed Cups, the HP lib and all the other packages. Running cups, added the printer, sharing the printer for everyone just to see if it works...