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Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 09:21:11 -0500 (CDT)
From: "M. L. Dodson" <bdodson@beowulf.utmb.edu>
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To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, shawn@cpl.net
Subject: Re: Printing on Hp Deskjet 855C
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> 
> Is it possible to print using lpr(smbclient works) to a HP Deskjet 855C?

Yes (assuming it is connected to a microsloth box).

> Would I be better off
> connecting the printer to the FreeBSD box and share it with Samba? 

Yes.

>If
> its possible and anyone has
> a printcap for this printer that works id appreciate it if you could
> pass it along.

su
cd /usr/ports/print/apsfilter
make; make install

(make sure ghostscript is configured with a driver for your HP)

then edit your samba config file and set the guest user to ftp (user
nobody seems to give big problems)

I tell the microsloth OS I have a DEC PS color printer (I forget
the name, but it will be obvious.  Other color PS printers probably
work, also.)  If I'm printing B/W (I have a HP520, so have to change
cartridges) I tell it I have an Apple Laserwriter NTR (if I remember
correctly).  You can probably get generic B/W and color printer 
description files from Adobe, but I don't know how to get Windoze 
to use them, so I haven't bothered.  The Microsloth box will put
out some extraneous lines of garbage which will give an extra page
of garbage output.  I use an awk script in place of cat in the
apsfilter script to get rid of them.  I can bring it from home
if you need it (it is pretty trivial).

> 
> Thanks.
> 

You're welcome.

> 
> 
> 

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M. L. Dodson                                bdodson@scms.utmb.edu
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