From owner-freebsd-current Sun Mar 31 01:23:11 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA11484 for current-outgoing; Sun, 31 Mar 1996 01:23:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts10-line12.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.110]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA11470 for ; Sun, 31 Mar 1996 01:23:05 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id BAA01061; Sun, 31 Mar 1996 01:24:00 -0800 Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 01:23:59 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Chris Cappuccio cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: <199603291843.NAA02951@sefl.satelnet.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 29 Mar 1996, Chris Cappuccio wrote: > I need a little help getting a hewlett packard deskjet 500 > printer working under -current (nothing to do with the fact > that it's current or 2.1 or whatever, just that its kind of > strange..) I can't get he baud rate adn such set correctly > in printcap and once I do, how would I print from applications such as umm netscape or > something.. (ghostscript PS-->PCL?) .. hewlett pakards support goes > as far as to tell me that they dont reccomend their prindeters > for use in a unix environment and that they offer no assistance in > doing so..heh.. I have a DJ 500C and it is working perfectly. I use apsfilter to get it to print postscript from Netscape. apfilter uses ghostscript to get the data converted over. I do believe the Handbook has something to say about getting these online; they're no different from normal printers, other than you do have to make an allowance to convert LF -> CR/LF. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major