Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 17:55:12 -0500 (CDT) From: Peter da Silva <peter@bonkers.taronga.com> To: Julian.H.Stacey@regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de (Julian Howard Stacey) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: HP Laserjet 2p Message-ID: <199504252255.RAA18430@bonkers.taronga.com> In-Reply-To: <199504221138.NAA07819@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> from "Julian Howard Stacey" at Apr 22, 95 01:38:28 pm
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> - We are not discussing a `networked laser' as far as I know. I realise that. I thought I'd qualified my comment sufficiently... the real problem I was getting at is not the exact one addressed, but rather that if you specify a remote printer the BSD spooler will not run any filters you put in the printcap entry. This means if you *are* using a networked laser there is no place to put that "ESC & k 2 G" string unless you do a hack with two print queues, the first of which runs a filter that resubmits to the second queue pointing to the remote system. Several companies are now selling laser printers or printer servers that are not significantly programmable but can be simply connected to the network and speak the BSD printer protocol. If you have one of these that's pretty much what you have to do. It turns out that for the HP version of this they set up two remote printer names, "raw" and "text", with the "text" printer effectively doing "ESC & k 2 G" for you. > I feel one of us is missing the point (& I'm not sure who), > perhaps we're talking at cross purposes ? My purpose is to let people who might be setting up an HP printer with a recent jetdirect card and talking to it from a BSD box know that you don't need to go through this rigamarole any more.
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