From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 9 19: 0: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.rdc1.az.home.com (unknown [24.1.240.76]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3583637B479 for ; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 19:00:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from home.com ([24.1.247.6]) by mail2.rdc1.az.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20001110030004.QVWP7410.mail2.rdc1.az.home.com@home.com> for ; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 19:00:04 -0800 Message-ID: <3A0B4424.5EB9D4C7@home.com> Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2000 17:41:08 -0700 From: Joel Mc Graw X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: lpr - remote printing Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -Newbie alert- Sorry if this is way basic. My company has a Xerox 4850 production printer that is front-ended by a Sparc/Solaris machine. I've been using FreeBSD 3.1 for a network print spooler for a while, but now I need filters (this printer does _not_ understand PDF, and I need to print many, many PDF files). It seems that the standard lpr/lpd does NOT allow one to use filters for a remotely-hosted printer. I know that there are alternatives (e.g. LPRng), but I haven't been able to determine if they would allow me to set up a filter that would transparently convert the file to PostScript. Any suggestions to RTFM welcome--just point me to the right FM :) TIA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message