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From: james@jraynard.demon.co.uk (James Raynard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Printer? HP 855Cse...
Date: 9 Jul 1996 17:10:04 -0000
Organization: A FreeBSD Box
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In article <4rrke9$do4@cronkite.seas.gwu.edu>,
Juzer T. Kopti <kopti@seas.gwu.edu> wrote:
>
>Just installed FreeBSD 2.1...Are drivers for HP 855Cse DESKJET
>printer available now ?

Device drivers for printers in text mode come as part of the basic
operating system. There's a good guide on how to set up printers at

http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/

For printing PostScript, you can install the ghostscript package,
which has PostScript drivers for most printers. I'm not sure if the
version of ghostscript (3.51) in the package supports your printer,
but a package for version 4.0 should be available in the next couple
of weeks.

-- 
James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland
james@jraynard.demon.co.uk
http://www.freebsd.org/~jraynard/