printer/printing

Hello I am tring to get my Hp Laserjet printer running. https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/cups/article.html Should it be this hard to get my printer installed? This is a bad joke. I have never been able to use the USB thumb drive since I have started using Freebsd or the DVD burner. I...

Hello everyone, My plan was to connect a network printer over ethernet to a free ethernet port on my FreeNAS server. Somehow I think this will use less resources than a FreeBSD jail with CUPS, if I am wrong please say. I have to do it like this, since the printer is physically close to the...

Hello :) I can't find this printer in Hardware Notes and in openprinting.org. The official link to this printer is https://www.kyoceradocumentsolutions.eu/index/products/product/fs1035mfpdp.html and according to...

Hi there, some month ago I had no trouble getting HPLIP installed thru prts and it was working fine. HPLIP{ pkg never worked for me. However, now ports is breaking up with so many errors and the hplip pkg install pretense it couldn't see my printer on the network. Printer and scanner working...

Hi there! I have had a very hard time connecting my Canon printer (MF 4150). Tried several things outlined in the official doc, and some online threads. The printer is connected directly to the desktop which runs Freebsd 11, via USB port. Here is the output of the dmesg. ulpt0: <Canon Inc...

I have a network IP printer using JetDirect. Use HPLIP to communicate with it from Linux or GhostBSD, but FreeBSD refuses to complete the install. Printer file is there, but program has permanent message NOT FOUND... printer def files were gunzipped, I unzipped the one I neededd with NO...

I installed the CUPS service and I could login the web interface to manage printers. But I did not find the model of my printer. My printer has ethernet card and wireless card. However, I was not able to use WiFi because the my home WLAN uses 5G and the printer's wirelsss card dosen't support...

hello, i want to install my network printer which is an HP officejet 6830 pro, but for that i need to complice the port / usr / ports / print / hplip, an error pops up, it's error code 74 in a QT5 library. here is my output: rict-aliasing -isystem /usr/local/include' 'QMAKE_LFLAGS=...

I'm having trouble with a program I'm working on, which generates spurious printouts. I'd like to create a new entry in /etc/printcap to send the this unwanted output to. What's the best way to do that? Thanks.

New to BSD and just installed TrueOS. I'm trying to find a printer driver for this printer. Can anyone help or lead me in the right direction? This is the only thing holding me back right now. Thanks

Well the wife is nagging me to buy a printer because the kids are in school and printing has become pretty much necessary. So over the next week or two or three I really should buy something. Happy wife happy life. :p I've been reading through the multiple discussion post so I think I got...

Hi everybody, Having bought a HPLaserjetP1102w, I'm now trying to make it work through print/hplip, instead of LPD, in order to have better support, more features, easy-to-use interface, etc....(also beacuse using lpd, I've never managed to make my old Epson perform really well if dealing with...

Well, here it is not. CUPS web interface is nice, but no locally-attached printer is offered: :( Local Printers: Discovered Network Printers: Other Network Printers: AppSocket/HP JetDirect LPD/LPR Host or Printer Internet...

3D printing and laser cutting are all-the-rage right now. So, I was wondering if any forum members do it on FreeBSD. For people who are doing this using FreeBSD, what tool-chains are you using? What hardware?

I am creating this thread because I have a problem printing to a CUPS server installed in a FreeBSD jail and I am not sure if this problem is related to a misconfigured jail and/or misconfigured CUPS server. The host server (skg) installation is a FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE. The jail (fileserver) is...

I'm trying to run autoreconf -fi but I'm getting a error that forces the script to exit. configure.ac:54: error: possibly undefined macro: AS_IF If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow. See the Autoconf documentation. configure.ac:56: error: possibly...

Can anyone recommend a laser printer with a scanner/copier built in that will work well on FreeBSD? Thanks in advance.

Having given up on a solution to installing a Samsung 1660 printer with foo2zjs on FreeBSD 10.3, I moved to an HP 1018 type printer: When I try to build foo2zjsfor this printer, using gmake, the script stops with an error: gs not found. Is anyone able to tell me how to point the installer at...

Hi, I have Brother DCP-1512E multifunction device. I'm not familiar with LPD, CUPS or sane but using Brother instructions I've configured the printer under Linux (Lubuntu) and it is now shared over the network. Both network printing and scanning work properly. But... The Linux is run as a...

I would like to use my HP OfficeJet Pro 8100 with my freeBSD laptop, but I can't find a ppd file. Is there a way around this?