From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 28 19:44:52 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA06440 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 28 Aug 1997 19:44:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rain.seti.tec.sd.us (sfsd16132.sf.k12.sd.us [207.108.16.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA06433 for ; Thu, 28 Aug 1997 19:44:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from H2029404.seti.tec.sd.us (seti22156.seti.tec.sd.us [207.108.22.156]) by rain.seti.tec.sd.us (8.8.5/8.6.9) with ESMTP id VAA02359 for ; Thu, 28 Aug 1997 21:40:29 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <34063784.36F1DAB7@seti.tec.sd.us> Date: Thu, 28 Aug 1997 21:44:21 -0500 From: walkepat X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.01 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: printing from a freebsd system over a network to a laser printer X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I am trying to print from a freebsd system over a network to a laser printer. I got the information to print to the printer but it is not in the right format. I have read some stuff about filters and some of the stuff I have read makes me think that there is just software to load on the printer, but if thats not the case I think I have to add some filters, I am not sure how to do that. The printer is a hp 5m. If I have to run a filter do I have to right a program for it or just add something to my printcap file?