From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 25 15:43:41 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA16759 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 25 Apr 1996 15:43:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phs.k12.ar.us (garman@[165.29.117.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA16753 for ; Thu, 25 Apr 1996 15:43:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (garman@localhost) by phs.k12.ar.us (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id RAA25827; Thu, 25 Apr 1996 17:42:52 -0500 Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 17:42:52 -0500 (CDT) From: Jason Garman To: Sean Kelly cc: ejs@bfd.com, twoods@ccgate.sos.state.il.us, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Net connected printer In-Reply-To: <9604251731.AA26193@fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 25 Apr 1996, Sean Kelly wrote: > 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. > This is just geting slightly off-topic, but... :-) The coolest thing I've seen in net-capable printers is the GCC Elite line of printers with built-in web servers, through which you can configure every aspect of the printers operation... Very nice... Their homepage is at http://www.gcctech.com/, I think they have an example printer you can fool around with :-) Now back to the regular FreeBSD questions.... -- Jason