From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 10 11:18:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailout2-0.nyroc.rr.com (mailout2-1.nyroc.rr.com [24.92.226.165]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6CDA37B401 for ; Sat, 10 Feb 2001 11:18:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from rochester.rr.com (roc-24-169-206-37.rochester.rr.com [24.169.206.37]) by mailout2-0.nyroc.rr.com (8.11.2/RoadRunner 1.03) with ESMTP id f1AJEgm22046; Sat, 10 Feb 2001 14:14:43 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3A8593E8.C1CC2A1A@rochester.rr.com> Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2001 14:18:00 -0500 From: "David M. Heller" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jaap van Hennik Cc: "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Printer question References: <01021017084900.84720@jvanhennik.igr.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jaap van Hennik wrote: > > How do I let my HP Laserjet III and my Canon 4400 let work with FreeBSD? > *jaap* > hey jaap I use the port magicfilter because ease of setup. I don't know if it supports Canon 4400 But it does support HP laserjet III To install: cd /usr/ports/print/magicfilter make install make clean (to remove unneeded files) follow instructions in the docs. Below is my /etc/printcap you could add a second printer by having lp and lp1 both defined in etc/printcap. lp|local line printer:\ :sh:\ :lp=/dev/ulpt0:sd=/var/spool/output/lpd:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:\ :if=/usr/local/libexec/magicfilter/deskjet-filter:\ :mx#0 -- David Heller dheller1@rochester.rr.com http://www.mbcrep.com/?47353 http://teraformahealth.com/tfh/57601.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message