From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 30 17:10:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from corinth.bossig.com (corinth.bossig.com [208.26.239.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 779DE150CC for ; Sun, 30 Jan 2000 17:10:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kstewart@3-cities.com) Received: from 3-cities.com (kenn3014.bossig.com [208.26.243.14]) by corinth.bossig.com (Rockliffe SMTPRA 3.4.6) with ESMTP id ; Sun, 30 Jan 2000 17:18:36 -0800 Message-ID: <3894E11F.C945D1AC@3-cities.com> Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 17:10:55 -0800 From: Kent Stewart Organization: BOSSig X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Walter Brameld Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Printing to Win95 DeskJet References: <00013018283101.05726@Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Walter Brameld wrote: > > Hello all, > I'm about at the burnout stage here. I can't figure out how to > get my printer working. I'm trying to access a HP DeskJet 895 cxi on > a Win95 box. I've installed Samba, LPRng, GhostScript, you-name-it. > I've read until I've gone cross-eyed and still can't get the danged > thing to work! Let me clarify that, I can print text files. Only > problem with that is I have to manually eject the last page of the > file. This at least indicates I am communicating with the printer. You need something like this /etc/printcap < lp|HPLJ2:\ :lp=:\ :rm=psrvr:\ :rp=L1:\ :if=/var/spool/lpd/lj.sh:\ :lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd:\ :mx#0 > /var/spool/lpd/lj/sh < #!/bin/sh PATH=/usr/bin:/bin; export PATH cat printf "\f" exit > I haven't done anything on postscript. Kent > > What I'd really like to get working is Postscript file conversion. > If anyone has a similar setup working please get in touch with me and > give me a few pointers. Apparently I'm not bright enough to figure > this out on my own. > > Thanks in advance. > > -- > Walter > > in·tel·lec·tu·al > n. Someone who has been educated past his/her level of intelligence. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ Home http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message