From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jul 19 21:36:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA28450 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 19 Jul 1997 21:36:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fang.cs.sunyit.edu (perlsta@fang.cs.sunyit.edu [192.52.220.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA28445 for ; Sat, 19 Jul 1997 21:36:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (perlsta@localhost) by fang.cs.sunyit.edu (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA18042; Sun, 20 Jul 1997 04:36:11 GMT Date: Sun, 20 Jul 1997 04:36:10 +0000 (GMT) From: Alfred Perlstein To: Al Johnson cc: "'hackers@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: HP LaserJet 6L In-Reply-To: <01BC939C.46CF4020.Al.Johnson@AJC.State.Net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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