From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Apr 2 07:31:06 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id HAA19252 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 2 Apr 1995 07:31:06 -0700 Received: from snoopy.mv.com (snoopy.mv.com [199.125.64.182]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id HAA19244 for ; Sun, 2 Apr 1995 07:30:54 -0700 Received: (from pw@localhost) by snoopy.mv.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id KAA01040; Sun, 2 Apr 1995 10:29:18 -0400 Date: Sun, 2 Apr 1995 10:29:18 -0400 From: "Paul F. Werkowski" Message-Id: <199504021429.KAA01040@snoopy.mv.com> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org In-reply-to: (message from -Vince- on Sun, 2 Apr 1995 03:17:39 -0400 (EDT)) Subject: Re: /etc/printcap for Deskjet 500 and gs Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> "-Vince-" == -Vince- writes: -Vince-> On Sat, 1 Apr 1995, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >> > Here is my /etc/printcap file > ... >> >> Does anyone "own" printing under FreeBSD? I've often felt >> there to be a great, sucking vacuum in the printing side of >> things and it really would be NIFTY if somebody who actually >> OWNED A PRINTER (this does not include me) and was kind of >> DETAIL MINDED actually got mad and angry enough about the poor >> printer support and DID SOMETHING ABOUT IT. >> >> Any takers? :-) >> >> Jordan >> -Vince-> Well, I actually OWN A PRINTER or to be exact, one HP -Vince-> DeskJet 560C, DeskJet Portable 310 and a DeskJet 500 and -Vince-> recently got printing of everything except for dvi files -Vince-> under apsfilter 4.9 delta which I am trying out... Time -Vince-> to add apsfilter to the ports collection? :-) I just happened to get a DeskJet 540 last weekend and spent an afternoon trying to get the thing to work. I found buried in the ghostscript port a file called "unix-pr" along with some install script that created a bunch of cdj-550.x print queues and a printcap file that basically turned the Deskjet into a postscript printer. That, along with a2ps and dvips seems to be all that one needs to get the job done. It was simple enough to do but it sure would be nice to have it automated - or even a good pointer as to where to find the needed files. By the way, the 540 is a pretty nice unit. ($279 at Staples). Does color for $40 more. Paul