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Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 16:50:31 -0600
From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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In message <970625181551_-1428725356@emout12.mail.aol.com> StevenR362@aol.com writes:
: You have at least two options that should work.  Option one is to buy
: a high quality automatic printer switch that is bidirectional 
: I.E.E. 1280? (can't remember the exact number) compatible.  It has to
: fully mimic a straight through bidirectional cable.

I picked up one for about $25 that I was told was completely
compilant.  Doesn't work :-(.

: Option two is to run Samba on your FreeBSD box with both printers attached
: and network mount them on your windows machine.  I would have done this
: except I already had the switch.  This also gives you the added benefit of
: being able to mount disk space from your FreeBSD box on your windows
: machine.  Two $19.00 NE2000 clones will set you right up for less than the
: printer switches.  Also take a look at apsfilter in ports.  It is about as 
: transparent as you can get for printing from Unix.

I'm thinking that this is the best bet.  I will most liekly do this.
However, there is a gotcha: I have to use a generic PS driver and
ghostscript to do this.  Otherwise I'm SOL because the HP printer
driver will not allow a connection to a network printer :-(.

Warner