From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 4 17:56:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA17957 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 4 Jan 1998 17:56:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from mailb.telia.com (mailb.telia.com [194.22.194.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA17950 for ; Sun, 4 Jan 1998 17:56:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from girgen@partitur.se) Received: from d1o62.telia.com (root@d1o62.telia.com [195.198.198.241]) by mailb.telia.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA29684; Mon, 5 Jan 1998 02:56:33 +0100 (CET) Received: from partitur.se (t8o62p36.telia.com [195.198.199.216]) by d1o62.telia.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA16843; Mon, 5 Jan 1998 02:56:25 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <34B03DB3.BD45862C@partitur.se> Date: Mon, 05 Jan 1998 02:56:03 +0100 From: Palle Girgensohn Organization: Partitur X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-STABLE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Leif Neland CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: printing from netscape References: <7d2_9801050219@swimsuit.swimsuit.roskildebc.dk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello Leif, You need ghostscript on the printerhost to convert postscript into something the Canon printer can understand. If you're just a little lucky, there's a ready-made filter in the ghostscript package that you can use in your printcap file. Netscape prints in postscript, as most unix progs. Check the docs for ghostscript on how to do this. Regards, Palle Leif Neland wrote: > > So now I can print from machine darla to the printer on arnold. > (Thanks Norman Rice and Lee Jonston). > > Now I want to print from netscape to the printer, which is a Canon LBP8-III. > > Is it Netscape (on darla) which should know the printertype, or is it fbsd (on > arnold?)?. > > Does Netscape print in postscript, or bitmap, or what? > The canon is not postscript, do I need ghostscript? On the printerhost, or the > client? > > Leif Neland > leifn@image.dk > > --- > |Fidonet: Leif Neland 2:234/49 > |Internet: leifn@image.dk