From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 25 22:19:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA08903 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Aug 1997 22:19:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts17-line10.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.227]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA08898 for ; Mon, 25 Aug 1997 22:19:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA03260; Mon, 25 Aug 1997 22:19:33 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 22:19:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Sherman Ye cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What type of printers can I use in FreeBSD? In-Reply-To: <33F3F5A4.B03F6D4E@umcs.maine.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 15 Aug 1997, Sherman Ye wrote: > I have a printer labeled "for Windows". Can I use it in FreeBSD? My rule of thumb: if it says "for Windows" on it, it probably does some silly proprietary garbage that only the Windows driver knows how to do. You'd have to try it. > If yes, how? See the handbook section on printing. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo