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From: ganter@carson.u.washington.edu (Mark Ganter)
Subject: Re: 386BSD and the HP LaserJet III
Message-ID: <1992Oct22.045314.28760@u.washington.edu>
Keywords: HP, LaserJet
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Organization: University of Washington
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Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1992 04:53:14 GMT
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rt@cen.com (Richard Tom) writes:
>	I didn't see this in the August FAQ, so please don't flame me.  A friend
>of mine has a HP LaserJet III and want to hook it up to either the parallel port
>or one of his serial ports.  If the information to set up 386BSD to use an
>HP LaserJet III as the lp device, please post or email me.  If you tell
>me to RTFM, please tell me which FM.

I too am at the same state.  I understand that to use parallel ports requires
a kernel rebuild...Ok.  So I'll live with serial ports.  I have both a
HP LJII and a Postscript carridge.  Would someone in the know please post
the process?  Thanks in advance.

I believe that "we" need proper /etc/printcap file entry (ies).  Also, what
about output filters for postscript? or do you just send output in some "raw"
print mode?  I'm looking at the SMM.06.lpd manual.  Lots of detail but what
order do the operations take place.  ....Mark

Mark Ganter/Univ of Washington/Dept of Mech Engr/FU-10/Seattle, WA 98195 USA
ganter@u.washington.edu