From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Dec 7 18:25:50 2000 From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 7 18:25:48 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from lsmls02.we.mediaone.net (lsmls02.we.mediaone.net [24.130.1.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFA5537B400 for ; Thu, 7 Dec 2000 18:25:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from mediaone.net (we-24-130-94-77.we.mediaone.net [24.130.94.77]) by lsmls02.we.mediaone.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA11029; Thu, 7 Dec 2000 18:25:41 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3A3045A7.27A35B79@mediaone.net> Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 18:21:27 -0800 From: Eric M Logan X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Carl Makin Cc: STABLE Subject: Re: Netatalk--printing from a MAC... References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I guess I'll dig through the docs for apsfilter and hope for the best. As far as the ppd files are concerned, how would I know which is the right one for the HP DeskJet 855cxi? Or does it really matter? Thanks. Carl Makin wrote: > On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Eric M Logan wrote: > > > No, it's just a regular DeskJet printer. I have apsfilter installed but > > shouldn't the specification of the ppd file attend to the conversion? > > No. The PPD specifies things like what Postscript level to use, how many > bins the printer has, memory, envelope feeder and such. The laserwriter 8 > driver always prints postscript. > > > Afterall, I can readily print through LPD w/o the use of apsfilter from any of > > the PCs as I can specify the driver for the particuar printer when I'm setting > > it up from the PC side. This is so frustrating. > > The PC's send their print jobs formated for the Deskjet. > > What you need to do is point the papd (appletalk) print queue to a BSD > print queue controlled by apsfilter. Apsfilter will determin the job is > postscript and get ghostscript to convert it for you. > > Carl. -- ***************************** Eric M Logan ericmlogan@mediaone.net eric_m_logan@yahoo.com ***************************** Flames to /dev/null plz. :) ***************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message