From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 25 03:55:35 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id DAA08868 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 03:55:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id DAA08797 for ; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 03:55:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (andrsn.Stanford.EDU [36.33.0.163]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with ESMTP id AAA15434 for ; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 00:14:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost.Stanford.EDU [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id AAA10644; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 00:13:28 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 00:13:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson To: Alf Krause cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: printing with FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <326F4777.1165@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 24 Oct 1996, Alf Krause wrote: > Hi, > I'm a new user of FreeBSD and i have some problems to print something. > > I've a HP Laserjet 4P (Non Postscript) on LTP1 and a HP Deskjet 510 on > the LPT2. > > I Had make some chenges in the printcap file, but it's print not > correctly.> > -- > Alf -:) Hi Alf, I am including the freebsd-questions list in this reply, because I can't print very well myself. There doesn't seem to be any straightforward explanation of how to print to non-postscript printers. One solution sometimes suggested is installing apsfilter. I think it requires ghostscript, so first you have to install that. apsfilter is not easy to install. I did this and now can print to my laserjet, but only the kind of printing I get from the dos print command. So unless I just want a print-out of a file for information (rather than a letter or a spreadsheet file or whatever) I use dos/windows programs for printed output. Not very satisfactory, is it? Maybe someone on questions can be more helpful. There's a great deal of information in the FreeBSD handbook on this (should be on your hard drive somewhere) but really nothing that actually tells you how to do it. Mit besten gru"ssen, Annelise > -- > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > + -= Alf Krause =- -= Phone: +49-37323-9757 =- > + -= Neubauring 7 =- -= Fax : +49-37323-9782 =- \|||/ > + -= D-09638 Lichtenberg =- -= krause@transnet.de =- 0(o o)0 -- >