From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 5 14:53:03 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4834416A567 for ; Tue, 5 Apr 2005 14:53:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp-vbr12.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr12.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.32]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DB9F43D58 for ; Tue, 5 Apr 2005 14:53:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: from slackbox.xs4all.nl (slackbox.xs4all.nl [213.84.242.160]) j35Er0bd035336; Tue, 5 Apr 2005 16:53:00 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: by slackbox.xs4all.nl (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 9BFDC638D; Tue, 5 Apr 2005 16:53:00 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 16:53:00 +0200 From: Roland Smith To: Gert Cuykens Message-ID: <20050405145300.GA60490@slackbox.xs4all.nl> Mail-Followup-To: Gert Cuykens , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="yrj/dFKFPuw6o+aM" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-GPG-Fingerprint: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 X-GPG-Key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt X-GPG-Notice: If this message is not signed, don't assume I sent it! Organization: Me, organized? X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: printing X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2005 14:53:03 -0000 --yrj/dFKFPuw6o+aM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 09:53:36AM +0200, Gert Cuykens wrote: > "USB interfaces, named for the Universal Serial Bus, can run at even > faster speeds than parallel or RS232 serial interfaces. Cables are > simple and cheap. USB is superior to RS232 Serial and to Parallel for > printing, but it is not as well supported under UNIX(r) systems. A way > to avoid this problem is to purchase a printer that has both a USB > interface and a Parallel interface, as many printers do." >=20 > lol, a very nice translation that says usb =3D no printing :) USB printing works, AFAICT. My Epson Stylus Photo 870 worked fine with USB. > So my question is, for printing sake let there be a other way.=20 > What do you use to print stuff, for example on a shared windows printer := )=20 >=20 > I guess there are only 3 choses LPD LPRng CUPS ? Not quite. The venerable lpr and LPRng are just printer spoolers. I.e. software to feed subsequent new print jobs to the right printer after the previous one has finished. On the other hand, apsfilter can convert many different file formats to something your printer can understand. Cups is like a combination of apsfilter and lpr, with an additional web interface. I've used apsfilter in the past, but now I prefer CUPS.=20 Roland --=20 R.F. Smith /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign r s m i t h @ x s 4 a l l . n l \ / No HTML/RTF in e-mail http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ X No Word docs in e-mail public key: http://www.keyserver.net / \ Respect for open standards --yrj/dFKFPuw6o+aM Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCUqZMEnfvsMMhpyURAtbbAJ0RvUVz/Jk3I/ovGCZEXCXFaNRWjACfTdeX 0jKKFF84WFH2j2mqyCewyhs= =bffk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --yrj/dFKFPuw6o+aM--