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From: "Charles Pelletier" <fozekizer@attbi.com>
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Subject: Re: HP laserjetIII compatibility?
Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 15:41:14 -0500
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thanks for the input.i'll write back when everything's working again.

--charlie pelletier
--litmus(mp3.com/litmus)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Annelise Anderson" <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu>
To: "Richard Mahoney" <rbm49@ext.canterbury.ac.nz>
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Subject: Re: HP laserjetIII compatibility?


> On Tue, 21 May 2002, Richard Mahoney wrote:
>
> > On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 07:56:40PM +0000, fozekizer@attbi.com wrote:
> > > Can someone point me to a location that has a good
> > > printcap for an HP LaserJet III? I am having problems
> > > getting FreeBSD 4.3R to communicate with the printer. I
> > > am using printcap, if-simple, and other necessary items
> > > directly from the FreeBSD handbook, but, nothing wants
> > > to communicate with the printer (which, btw, works
> > > beautifully, but not in FREEBSD at the moment)
> >
> > apsfilter-7.2.2
> >
> > Many regards,
> >
> >  Richard Mahoney
> >
> The LaserJet III uses the Hewlett-Packard PCL language and does not
> do postscript; apsfilter causes it to emulate postscript.
>
> If you want to print a text file on your LJ III with the default
> printcap entry, you can change the line endings with unix2dos (this
> is a port).  Then you should be able to cat the file to /dev/lpt0
> (if that's where the printer is) or type lpr -Plp <filename>.
>
> That at least will ensure that you can communicate with the printer.
>
> I wrote a port (called pclprint) for printing on PCL LaserJets by
> putting the necessary PCL language codes in the document.  However
> it is so hard to use I hardly ever used it myself.
>
> Annelise
>
> --
> Annelise Anderson
> Author of: FreeBSD: An Open-Source Operating System for Your PC
> Available from: BSDmall.com and amazon.com
> Book Website:    http://www.bittreepress.com/FreeBSD/introbook/
>
>
>
>



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