Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 01:23:59 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: Chris Cappuccio <ccappuc@satelnet.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960331012232.1054A-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199603291843.NAA02951@sefl.satelnet.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Fri, 29 Mar 1996, Chris Cappuccio wrote: > I need a little help getting a hewlett packard deskjet 500 > printer working under -current (nothing to do with the fact > that it's current or 2.1 or whatever, just that its kind of > strange..) I can't get he baud rate adn such set correctly > in printcap and once I do, how would I print from applications such as umm netscape or > something.. (ghostscript PS-->PCL?) .. hewlett pakards support goes > as far as to tell me that they dont reccomend their prindeters > for use in a unix environment and that they offer no assistance in > doing so..heh.. I have a DJ 500C and it is working perfectly. I use apsfilter to get it to print postscript from Netscape. apfilter uses ghostscript to get the data converted over. I do believe the Handbook has something to say about getting these online; they're no different from normal printers, other than you do have to make an allowance to convert LF -> CR/LF. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.BSF.3.91.960331012232.1054A-100000>