Trying for a duplex printer
Chuck Robey
chuckr at chuckr.org
Wed May 7 18:44:14 UTC 2008
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Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> On Tue, 06 May 2008 12:43:08 -0400
> Chuck Robey <chuckr at chuckr.org> wrote:
>
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>> I have been scouring all the data I can, to find printers that do duplex
>> printing (that means doublesided printing). I found 3 models, but two of them
>> (the HP C7280 and the Canon PIXMA MX850) have no public drivers I can find. The
>> third, which is the Epson RX680, seems to be supported via drivers from Avasys
>> (http://avasys.jp/hp/menu000000900/hpg000000859.htm) called PIPS drivers, but
>> while there is are ports for various versions of PIPS in the print dir of ports,
>> and I can find that the Avasys site lists supporting the RX680, I have two problems:
>>
>> 1) I can't determine which (if any) of the PIPS ports support the RX680, and
>> 2) right now, none of them build because of an error you get about a
>> linuxwrapper not handling symbol versioning.
>>
>> Is there any way to rely on any FreeBSD port to be able to use the RX680 from
>> Epson?
>>
>
> I'm using a Kyocera FS-1030D (the 'D' means duplex). Yes, it works.
>
> It works just fine with CUPS. It could be that one of the printers
> which you're looking at would also work with CUPS.
>
> What you need to find is a PPD file which describes your printer. Mine
> uses Kyocera_FS-1030_en.ppd.
>
> There's a Linux-specific site which has these PPDs available, which is
> pretty easy to find with google.
>
> ---
> Gary Jennejohn
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