Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 14:17:16 +0200 (CEST) From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: Rick Knebel <rknebel@uplink.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: printer Message-ID: <XFMail.990410141716.asmodai@wxs.nl> In-Reply-To: <19990410080434.A4773@rknebel.uplink.net>
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On 10-Apr-99 Rick Knebel wrote: > Hi, > > On bootup I get this line > > ppbus0: <HEWLETT-PACKARD DESKJET 870C> PCL,MLC,PML > > Does this mean that freebsd has a driver for my printer. > Right now i use apsfilter to print. Nope, stick to apsfilter. ppbus merely detects what the printer supports. > Can this ppbus be used to print somehow? Ye already use it to print. ppbus and (n)lpt0 are used to print, that's what apsfilter and the lp* commands do. ppbus is merely the lower layer stuff and apsfilter is the formatter so to speak. HTH, --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <http://www.freebsdzine.org>; asmodai(at)wxs.nl The idea does not replace the work... Network/Security Specialist <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>; *BSD: Powered by Knowledge & Know-how <http://www.freebsd.org>; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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