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Date:      Tue, 26 May 1998 21:23:40 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Forrest Aldrich <forrie@tiac.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: LPD and HP/PCL
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980526212301.13318R-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199805262145.RAA12666@drama.navinet.net>

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On Tue, 26 May 1998, Forrest Aldrich wrote:

> I've been working on settng up a parallel connection to an HP Laserjet
> 6pxi, which requires PCL conversion.  However, it doesn't seem clear to me
> whether I'm better off using LPRNG or LPD.  The Handbook doesn't really
> address PCL conversion directly (just postscript).  Both daemons require
> different approaches, and I thought that staying simple and standard would
> be best.  

Actually you give a different output device to ghostscript and it'll spew
PCL instead of postscript.  I think you use the laserjet4 driver.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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