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#! rnews 2074 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!comp.vuw.ac.nz!waikato!newsource.ihug.co.nz!usenet From: Jimmy <jimmyc@ihug.co.nz> Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Q: HP 5L: Any Problems with FreeBSD? Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 04:07:16 +1300 Organization: The Internet Group Lines: 36 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <31C96924.6DEC@ihug.co.nz> References: <4pst35$kb@pier2.bayarea.net> <Dt3o6E.H26@alisa.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp-264.ihug.co.nz Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win95; I) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.periphs.printers:41324 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:21783 John J. Rushford wrote: :> :> 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. May I ask why you'd need to use ghostscript/apsfilter to print when your printer is a postscript laser ? Is there any advantage in doing so ? Netscape seems to print quite nicely when printing directly to printer (its in ps, and piped through lpr of course). :> :> regards :> -- :> John J. Rushford :> Westminster, Colorado___/\_/\_ :> wjjr@alisa.org (alisa.org is powered by FreeBSD)