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Date:      Wed, 01 Aug 2001 16:23:52 -0500
From:      "Douglas G. Allen" <dallen@roe35.lth2.k12.il.us>
To:        "mikea" <mikea@mikea.ath.cx>
Cc:        "FreeBSD Stable Listserv" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: printcap question
Message-ID:  <200108011623520014.01EC37E8@mail.roe35.lth2.k12.il.us>
In-Reply-To: <20010801160042.A93465@mikea.ath.cx>
References:  <200108012040.f71Ket224506@bunrab.catwhisker.org> <200108011602200247.01D881F1@mail.roe35.lth2.k12.il.us> <20010801160042.A93465@mikea.ath.cx>

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Mike,

>The HPs we use here are all networked; the lpd implementation
>works just dandy. I wish I could say that about _all_ the
>printers we use here. 

So do you have to run the filters on the file before you send
the print job to the printer?  I seem to remember a printer I 
had to do something like that about three years ago.  Something
like laser_filter file_to_print | lpr


>I have, BTW, seen diskless printers that will queue jobs up to
>the size of their queue memory, as distinct from their image 
>memory. 

This sounds like a good reason to put extra RAM in the printer.

						Doug


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