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Subject: Re: compatible printers
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Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 08:50:42 +0100 (MET)
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In-Reply-To: <199602121923.OAA00907@camitel.com> from "Root" at Feb 12, 96 02:23:43 pm
From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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> 
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to know what are the printers that are supported by FreeBSD?


Roughly speaking, every printer which is supported by a 
ghostscript driver is supported. Newer printers like EPSON stylus
are supported by ghostscript 3.51 which is in the FreeBSD
ports collection.


There is a filter (apsfilter) which supports text printing to postscript.

I interfaced a serial DECln03r Scriptprinter (Postscript) to my machine's
serial port. Here is the printcap entry:

#       @(#)printcap    5.3 (Berkeley) 6/30/90
lp0|lp|local laser printer:\
        :lp=/dev/cuaa2:\
        :rw:\
        :of=/usr/local/bin/lpof:\
        :fc#0000374:fs#0000003:br#38400:\
        :xc#0:xs#0040040:sf:sb:br#38400:\
        :mx#0:sd=/var/spool/output/lpd:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:




> 
> Thanks
> 
> root@camitel.com
> 
> 
> 

--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de