Date: Sat, 19 Jul 1997 20:24:55 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: Al.Johnson@AJC.State.Net (Al Johnson) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HP LaserJet 6L Message-ID: <199707191054.UAA13703@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <01BC939C.46CF4020.Al.Johnson@AJC.State.Net> from Al Johnson at "Jul 18, 97 05:01:46 pm"
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Al Johnson stands accused of saying: > > I'm trying to migrate all my ciritical functions from Win95 to FreeBSD. > Ya, I hear you all groaning now :) Since I'm no expert at this, been a > long time since I was a unix sysadmin, I need assistance with the filters > needed for this printer. I have successfully printed plain text on the > HP from the directly connected system sort of. An lptest > /dev/lpt0 > gets me a sheet of paper with a single line printed on it. Obvisouly not > what it's supposed to generate. Anyone with a filter or an adequate printcap > definition for this (or just about any PCL) printer I would really appreciate > an email copy. I _strongly_ recommend using apsfilter for this. It automates prettymuch the entire process. (It's in the ports collection) > In addition, is there any special setup required to get the appropriate > conversion from a Win95 print job to the printer via Samba? If you're using apsfilter, you can tell Windows that it's a generic postscript printer, or you can use a printer-specific driver. The latter method is probably a little better. There's no special conversion required, just set Samba up to talk to the printer as per the Samba documentation. > -- Al > -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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