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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!iafrica.com!uct.ac.za!quagga.ru.ac.za!howland.erols.net!news1.erols.com!news From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: printcap/remote laserjets Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 19:46:55 +0000 Organization: Erol's Internet Services Lines: 18 Message-ID: <323F002F.4D5@www.play-hookey.com> References: <51me2v$ij5@netaxs.com> Reply-To: kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; U) A. Karl Heller wrote: > > > Since HP doesn't sell any print management software for BSD machines, > I was wondering how you would setup a remote HP Laserjet to be accessable > via freebsd's print services. Also, are there any good examples of full > printcap files.. I noticed that freebsd's default is, well, empty. =) > RTHandbook on printing and remote printing -- it's a rather lengthy section. That takes care of text apps. If your printer is not PostScript capable, Ghostscript will probably recognize it. -- Ken Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |