From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 16 12:23:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA15985 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 12:23:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pau-amma.whistle.com (s205m64.whistle.com [207.76.205.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA15972 for ; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 12:23:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dhw@whistle.com) Received: (from dhw@localhost) by pau-amma.whistle.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id MAA11781; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 12:23:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dhw) Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 12:23:09 -0700 (PDT) From: David Wolfskill Message-Id: <199809161923.MAA11781@pau-amma.whistle.com> To: beaupran@JSP.UMontreal.CA, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Using a Canon BJC-4300 printer In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 13:13:29 -0400 (EDT) >From: BEAUPRE Antoine >I'm about to buy a new printer, and I'd like to know if it will work under >FreeBSD. Is it any 'driver' to print graphics, etc... >Thanks for any input or personal experiences. I'm not familiar with the particular printer you mentioned in the subject:, but what I've done is get a printer that can be made to understand PostScript, and everything's been fine -- most tools in UNIX environments create plain text, and those that don't can generally be persuaded to create PostScript (possibly via an intermediate filter). (Of course, nenscript & a2ps can be used to generate PostScript from plain text, for all that.) david -- David Wolfskill UNIX System Administrator dhw@whistle.com voice: (650) 577-7158 pager: (650) 371-4621 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message