From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 25 10:32:01 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA23916 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 25 Apr 1996 10:32:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov (fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov [137.75.131.171]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA23881 for ; Thu, 25 Apr 1996 10:31:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: by fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov (5.57/Ultrix3.0-C) id AA26193; Thu, 25 Apr 96 17:31:47 GMT Message-Id: <9604251731.AA26193@fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov> Received: by emu.fsl.noaa.gov (1.40.112.3/16.2) id AA047493503; Thu, 25 Apr 1996 11:31:43 -0600 Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 11:31:43 -0600 From: Sean Kelly To: ejs@bfd.com Cc: twoods@ccgate.sos.state.il.us, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: (ejs@bfd.com) Subject: Re: Net connected printer Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> "Eric" == "Eric J Schwertfeger" writes: Eric> Oh, and the cards support syslog. It's loads of fun Eric> watching messages pop up in xconsole about a printer 100 Eric> yards away is jammed/out of paper/door open, etc. Now THAT'S a nice feature. At one site we mandated PostScript printers only because we could get status messages back from the engine. And lprps could capture these messages and use syslog to ship'em out to the interested parties. It's nice to see net-capable printers getting smarter all the time. -- Sean Kelly NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory kelly@fsl.noaa.gov Boulder Colorado USA http://www-sdd.fsl.noaa.gov/~kelly/