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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news-pull.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-ana-7.sprintlink.net!ns1.tstt.net.tt!feisal From: feisal@tstt.net.tt (Feisal Mohammed) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.periphs.printers Subject: Re: Remote LPD Postscript printing quandary... Date: 15 Mar 1997 18:57:38 GMT Organization: University of the West Indies Lines: 20 Message-ID: <slrn5ilsun.5n.feisal@lancelot.valsayn.tt> References: <E704sD.FAw@rockyd.rockefeller.edu> <332bcb0d.48972344@news.ptd.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: cuscon51.tstt.net.tt X-Newsreader: slrn (0.9.2.1 BETA UNIX) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37107 comp.periphs.printers:61569 In article <332bcb0d.48972344@news.ptd.net>, Nick Folino wrote: >On Thu, 13 Mar 1997 21:53:01 GMT, Dan Ts'o <dan@dnn.rockefeller.edu> >wrote: > [snip] >Check out the handbook. There's some samples in there on setting up >HP's to print both PS and PCL. It works fine on my HP. > I have just installed LPRng and the CTI filters on a machine running Solaris, it is one great piece of software! Not only does it talk directly to the Jetdirect card but the filters are smart enough to switch the printer to PCL mode to handle text. I didn't see anything that would not cause it to give problems under FreeBSD. Sorry I cannot give the location of the ftp site cause I am not at work now :) -Feisal Feisal Mohammed <feisal@tstt.net.tt> Ph: 1-809-662-2002 x3171 Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of the West Indies.