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Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!chi-news.cic.net!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!csn!nntp-xfer-1.csn.net!alisa.org!wjjr From: wjjr@alisa.org (John J. Rushford) Subject: Re: Q: HP 5L: Any Problems with FreeBSD? Distribution: inet Followup-To: comp.periphs.printers,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Organization: My place on the Front Range. Message-ID: <Dt3o6E.H26@alisa.org> References: <4pst35$kb@pier2.bayarea.net> Date: Sun, 16 Jun 1996 15:54:14 GMT Lines: 29 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.periphs.printers:41090 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:21342 David McNab (mcnab@bayarea.net) wrote: : I'm thinking of buying an HP LaserJet 5L. I : will use it to print PostScript documents (via : ghostscript) on my FreeBSD 2.1 system, and also : probably once a while with various MS-DOG and : Windows applications. : I assume there are people out there who have : done the same -- any comments, favorable or : otherwise? Any problems printing PostScript : documents using ghostscript? Is memory size : an issue? : Thanks in advance for any comments. : -- : David McNab <mcnab@bayarea.net> I'm using an HP LaserJet 5MP with the apsfilter, one of the ports, installed on my FreeBSD machine. ghostscript is used by the apsfilter package. I've not used ghostscript directly much, I typically print from the Netscape web browser and a few postscript documents. Works great. regards -- John J. Rushford Westminster, Colorado___/\_/\_ wjjr@alisa.org (alisa.org is powered by FreeBSD)