Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 11:44:53 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Remote printing to Mac without ghostscript etc Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0210241138190.87139-100000@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <200210241732.SAA20907@sorley.cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
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On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Richard Tobin wrote: > I have an iMac (MacOS X 10.2) with an Epson printer attached. Is > there a reasonable way to use it as a print server from FreeBSD > without installing CUPS, ghostscript and all the associated stuff? > The Mac can print postscript perfectly well so it seems pointless to > have the FreeBSD box converting it to the Epson printer language > instead of sending postscript and converting on the Mac. The basic lpr/lpd system doesn't use CUPS or Ghostscript or apsfilter. Most of that stuff is so you don't need to know what type of file is being sent. So no, you don't need it. What you do need is to set up the Mac to receive incoming lpr jobs; to do that, it would run lpd, or whatever they're calling it. On the FreeBSD side, you set up a print queue that doesn't translate, just sends the stuff to the remote lpd server: lp:\ :lp=:\ :sh:\ :mx#0:\ :rm=addressofmaclpdserver:\ :rp=lp:\ :sd=/var/spool/output/lpd/lp:\ :lf=/var/log/lpd-errs: You need to create /var/spool/output/lpd/lp for lpd, and that "rp=raw" line assumes the print queue on the Mac is called "lp". -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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