From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 30 12: 5:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from horst.bfd.com (horst.bfd.com [12.9.219.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C9BF37BB4F for ; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 12:05:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ejs@bfd.com) Received: from HARLIE.bfd.com (bastion.bfd.com [12.9.219.14]) by horst.bfd.com (8.10.0/8.10.0) with ESMTP id e5UJ5Pb40138; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 12:05:26 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 12:05:25 -0700 (PDT) From: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: worldly BSD , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: using FreeBSD as a printer server In-Reply-To: <20000630113653.F275@fw.wintelcom.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > "samba" can offer Windows print services, you can find it in > the port collection. afaik HP Laserjets will provide lpd like > services, it is a bit tricky to configure but I've done it > before, just be persistant and you ought to be able to get > it working. If the Laserjets are HP4+ or later and have the network I/O cards, there's nothing tricky about them. Some of the earlier ones had a few quirks, though. In fact, it was easy enough that when my Cannon 8sx (HPIII clone, same mechanics, slightly different electronics, got it used 5 years ago) finally died, I picked up an HP2100NT as my home printer. For $875 I got a PS-aware printer that connected to the network via 10BaseT, 1200dpi and/or 10ppm, 500 sheet bin capacity, that both FreeBSD and Win9X can print directly to without needing a print server :-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message