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From: -Vince- <vince@kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu>
To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com>
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Subject: Re: /etc/printcap for Deskjet 500 and gs 
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On Sat, 1 Apr 1995, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:

> > Here is my /etc/printcap file
> > ...
> 
> Does anyone "own" printing under FreeBSD?  I've often felt there to be
> a great, sucking vacuum in the printing side of things and it really
> would be NIFTY if somebody who actually OWNED A PRINTER (this does not
> include me) and was kind of DETAIL MINDED actually got mad and angry
> enough about the poor printer support and DID SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
> 
> Any takers? :-)
> 
> 					Jordan
> 

	Well, I actually OWN A PRINTER or to be exact, one HP DeskJet 
560C, DeskJet Portable 310 and a DeskJet 500 and recently got printing of 
everything except for dvi files under apsfilter 4.9 delta which I am 
trying out...  Time to add apsfilter to the ports collection? :-)

Cheers,
Vince
UCLA Physics/Electrical Engineering 
Princeton/Berkeley student in the making...