Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 08:53:31 -0400 (EDT) From: John Bleichert <syborg@stny.rr.com> To: Pascal Giannakakis <CapM@gmx.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to quickly setup a network printer? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0210010849250.6181-100000@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org> In-Reply-To: <27662.1033474784@www38.gmx.net>
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On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Pascal Giannakakis wrote: > Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 14:19:44 +0200 (MEST) > From: Pascal Giannakakis <CapM@gmx.net> > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: How to quickly setup a network printer? > > Lo ppl, > > as the handbook doesn't give a quick and dirty answer to it... > > FreeBSD 4.6.2 WS + Epson EPL-N1600 Laser Printer @ network > > How do i set 'em up quickly and mostly automated? > > Thx! > Unfortuately there isn't a quick'n'dirty method. If you read through the handbook description of printing, you'll see that it's not too hard: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/printing.html The bad thing is that it's a non-trivial setup. The good thing is tha once you've done it on one free *nix platform, you've done it on pretty much all of them. Some of my friends use and rave about the CUPS printing system, you may want to check it out. I have no experience with it personally. If I need to print I do it on my Mac :-), but I have set up printers in Linux and BSD before, it's not too bad iff they're supported or at least work as a Postscript printer. Good luck - JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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