From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 26 21:26:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA15932 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 26 May 1998 21:26:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA15623 for ; Tue, 26 May 1998 21:23:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA00180; Tue, 26 May 1998 21:23:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 21:23:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Forrest Aldrich cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: LPD and HP/PCL In-Reply-To: <199805262145.RAA12666@drama.navinet.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message