Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 14:28:44 +0000 From: Scott Mitchell <scott.mitchell@mail.com> To: Malan Joubert <malan_joubert@hotmail.com>, g@tuatara.goatsucker.org Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: windows printer from FreeBSD Message-ID: <20020324142844.A281@fishballoon.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <F48jYhAOylhgnFZS4HI0000e63e@hotmail.com>; from malan_joubert@hotmail.com on Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 10:32:57AM %2B0200 References: <F48jYhAOylhgnFZS4HI0000e63e@hotmail.com>
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On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 10:32:57AM +0200, Malan Joubert wrote: > How do you print to a windows printer from FreeBSD? > I want to print high quility pcb files from a cad design package... > Is this possible? > The windows machine is running windows XP... > Thanx very much > Malan Hi Malan, The apsfilter package (print/apsfilter) -- highly recommended for any kind of printing from FreeBSD -- will print to any printer accessible to Samba, which it will install for you if you don't have it already. Setup was a bit fiddly the first time I did it; I won't try to offer any specific advice, since it depends very much on how your network is set up. You will need to have a printer that apsfilter could print to if it was directly connected to the FreeBSD machine -- effectively a real PostScript printer or one that Ghostscript has a driver for. That covers most things you're likely to encounter except for Winprinters, but you probably have a real printer for the kind of output you're producing :-) I believe Ghostscript has a driver that will allow it to print to *any* Windows-supported printer, but last time I looked, only if Ghostscript is running on the Windows machine. It would be very cool if this worked remotely as well, so yo umigt want to look into that as well. Cheers, Scott -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott.mitchell@mail.com | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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