From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 24 04:20:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id EAA04511 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 24 Dec 1997 04:20:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (gatekeeper.barcode.co.il [192.116.93.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id EAA04506 for ; Wed, 24 Dec 1997 04:20:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nadav@barcode.co.il) Received: (from smap@localhost) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA23210; Wed, 24 Dec 1997 14:13:05 +0200 (IST) (envelope-from nadav@barcode.co.il) X-Authentication-Warning: gatekeeper.barcode.co.il: smap set sender to using -f Received: from localhost.barcode.co.il(127.0.0.1) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il via smap (V2.0) id xma023208; Wed, 24 Dec 97 14:12:48 +0200 Message-ID: <34A0FDE1.3F75@barcode.co.il> Date: Wed, 24 Dec 1997 14:19:45 +0200 From: Nadav Eiron X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; SunOS 5.6 sun4u) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Vondrasek CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing Printer Help please References: <34A0C8A7.59E2B600@airmail.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk David Vondrasek wrote: > > Can someone help a little here ? > I'm running 2.2.5-RELEASE and have have the Printer installed, but I > guess I don't have it installed correcty with driver and such. It see's > the printer but prints garbage. I have HP660C and would like some > instruction on telling FreeBSD the correct way to print. All I get is > several sheets of garbage and am at a lost as to how and were to tell > the system what I have.please CC my E-mail as I can Only check the list > in it's filtered folder once a week to get updated.. Thanks.. > > -- > --- > > David L. Vondrasek > dallas.tex@airmail.net > http://web2.airmail.net/dvo264 You don't say what you're trying to print, but the easiest way to let you print almost any format without working too hard is to installed apsfilter (look in the ports) and ghostscript. Nadav