From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 10 18:44:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA06938 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 10 Jul 1998 18:44:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [139.130.136.133] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA06933 for ; Fri, 10 Jul 1998 18:44:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) id LAA23646; Sat, 11 Jul 1998 11:14:38 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980711111438.B23241@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sat, 11 Jul 1998 11:14:38 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Tetsuya Watanabe Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: q: high-speed serial card for freebsd References: <01BDAC30.F6E8C6E0@1Cust139.tnt17.sfo3.da.uu.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <01BDAC30.F6E8C6E0@1Cust139.tnt17.sfo3.da.uu.net>; from Tetsuya Watanabe on Fri, Jul 10, 1998 at 06:31:23PM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, 10 July 1998 at 18:31:23 -0700, Tetsuya Watanabe wrote: > What kind of printer do you need with FreeBSD? The printer has to > have Adobe PostScript2 printing language? How about Epson ESC/P2? I > would like to buy a cheap printer so that PostScript2 may not be > available on the printer. You don't need a PostScript printer for FreeBSD. About the only gotcha is that you may need to insert CR characters in ASCII text. You can use ghostscript to print PostScript on just about any printer. I explain this in some detail in Chapter 14 of "The Complete FreeBSD", second edition (http://www.cdrom.com/titles/os/bsdbook2.htm). Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message