From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Aug 1 14:18:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.roe35.lth2.k12.il.us (unknown [209.175.240.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6251E37B401 for ; Wed, 1 Aug 2001 14:18:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dallen@roe35.lth2.k12.il.us) Received: from dougs_laptop (dougs_laptop [209.175.240.20]) by mail.roe35.lth2.k12.il.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA07718; Wed, 1 Aug 2001 16:22:23 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dallen@roe35.lth2.k12.il.us) Message-ID: <200108011623520014.01EC37E8@mail.roe35.lth2.k12.il.us> In-Reply-To: <20010801160042.A93465@mikea.ath.cx> References: <200108012040.f71Ket224506@bunrab.catwhisker.org> <200108011602200247.01D881F1@mail.roe35.lth2.k12.il.us> <20010801160042.A93465@mikea.ath.cx> X-Mailer: Calypso Version 3.00.01.02 (1) Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 16:23:52 -0500 From: "Douglas G. Allen" To: "mikea" Cc: "FreeBSD Stable Listserv" Subject: Re: printcap question Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike, >The HPs we use here are all networked; the lpd implementation >works just dandy. I wish I could say that about _all_ the >printers we use here. So do you have to run the filters on the file before you send the print job to the printer? I seem to remember a printer I had to do something like that about three years ago. Something like laser_filter file_to_print | lpr >I have, BTW, seen diskless printers that will queue jobs up to >the size of their queue memory, as distinct from their image >memory. This sounds like a good reason to put extra RAM in the printer. Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message