Dennis den Brok wrote:
So, is there prospect of this being implemented soon? I recently bought a Kyocera FS-1030D (also very recommendable, to stay on-topic) and quickly got quite unsatisfied with printing on NetBSD. As for myself I found implementing PPD support a little too time-consuming, and don't know too much about printing anyways, I thought I'd come up with a patch to make NetBSD's lpr compatible with foomatic-filters (cf. pkgsrc/print/foomatic-filters, http://www.linuxprinting.org/), which would be unintrusive. If under these circumstances there's still interest in this, I could certainly produce a patch today or tomorrow.
What exactly is it that makes NetBSD's lpr/lpd incompatible with the foomatic-filters and foomatic-ppds packages from pkgsrc? Part of the reason I made those packages was because it was supposed to allow *any* printing system to use PPDs, e.g. for lpr/lpd:
myqueue|My local Kyocera printer:\
:lp=/dev/lpt0:\
:af=/usr/pkg/share/foomatic/ppd/Kyocera/Kyocera-FS-1010-ljet4.ppd:\
:if=/usr/pkg/bin/foomatic-rip:\
:sd=/var/spool/output/lpd:\
:mx#0:sh:
See the following link for more details:
http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/Database/LPDDocumentation
I have not personally used Foomatic with anything other than CUPS (which
I do highly recommend for the JFW factor), but according to its
documentation, Foomatic should still be usable by folks who prefer
lpr/lpd or LPRng.
Cheers,
-- Johnny C. Lam