From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 1 5:54:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C89F37B401 for ; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 05:54:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (bgm-24-94-58-56.stny.rr.com [24.94.58.56]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B96B243E3B for ; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 05:54:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from syborg@stny.rr.com) Received: by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix, from userid 507) id 898254FC98; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 08:53:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 821B04A0D; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 08:53:31 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 08:53:31 -0400 (EDT) From: John Bleichert X-X-Sender: syborg@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org Reply-To: John Bleichert To: Pascal Giannakakis Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to quickly setup a network printer? In-Reply-To: <27662.1033474784@www38.gmx.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Pascal Giannakakis wrote: > Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 14:19:44 +0200 (MEST) > From: Pascal Giannakakis > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: How to quickly setup a network printer? > > Lo ppl, > > as the handbook doesn't give a quick and dirty answer to it... > > FreeBSD 4.6.2 WS + Epson EPL-N1600 Laser Printer @ network > > How do i set 'em up quickly and mostly automated? > > Thx! > Unfortuately there isn't a quick'n'dirty method. If you read through the handbook description of printing, you'll see that it's not too hard: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/printing.html The bad thing is that it's a non-trivial setup. The good thing is tha once you've done it on one free *nix platform, you've done it on pretty much all of them. Some of my friends use and rave about the CUPS printing system, you may want to check it out. I have no experience with it personally. If I need to print I do it on my Mac :-), but I have set up printers in Linux and BSD before, it's not too bad iff they're supported or at least work as a Postscript printer. Good luck - JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message