Date: Sun, 20 Jul 1997 04:36:10 +0000 (GMT) From: Alfred Perlstein <perlsta@fang.cs.sunyit.edu> To: Al Johnson <Al.Johnson@AJC.State.Net> Cc: "'hackers@freebsd.org'" <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: HP LaserJet 6L Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970720043248.17993A-100000@fang.cs.sunyit.edu> In-Reply-To: <01BC939C.46CF4020.Al.Johnson@AJC.State.Net>
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On Fri, 18 Jul 1997, Al Johnson wrote: > Hey folks, > > I'm trying to migrate all my ciritical functions from Win95 to FreeBSD. > Ya, I hear you all groaning now :) Since I'm no expert at this, been a > long time since I was a unix sysadmin, I need assistance with the filters > needed for this printer. I have successfully printed plain text on the > HP from the directly connected system sort of. An lptest > /dev/lpt0 > gets me a sheet of paper with a single line printed on it. Obvisouly not > what it's supposed to generate. Anyone with a filter or an adequate printcap > definition for this (or just about any PCL) printer I would really appreciate > an email copy. I'm not sure but all i think HP printers need is a linefeed added after a carriage return for each cr. > In addition, is there any special setup required to get the appropriate > conversion from a Win95 print job to the printer via Samba? If you can wait a bit, i'll have some info up on my webpage at: http://www.cs.sunyit.edu/~perlsta in 1-3 days basically all you need to do is give Samba access to the printer as almost a raw device but configure samba to tell win95 what printer driver to use. Alfred
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