On Sat, Aug 08, 2009 at 10:09:30PM -0700, James Phillips wrote: > > Okay, after reading this, I used the "WayBack Machine" to review the > printing section of the April 17, 2006 version of the Handbook. > > I was not able to find anything that is writing a print-driver per-se. > In the "Advanced" section numerous shell scripts are described (some of > which use printer commands directly), but they tend to use filters from > the ports collection: > http://web.archive.org/web/20060417220024/www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/printing-advanced.html > > There is a section in the "Simple" section that explicitly says PS != > PCL. Part of the problem may be I did not have documentation for my > printer, so did not know how to put it in postscript mode. > > I really did feel I needed the PCL 4 documentation at one point. I'm > going to have to conclude I was mistaken.
No biggie. We all make mistakes from time to time (even me). For most of my printing needs, I use an HP 4050N. Configuring CUPS to use it was very straightforward -- I just chose the most obvious values from the options presented to me, and everything worked beautifully. For most, if not all, network-attached HP printers, I rather suspect it'd be much the same. Anyway, best of luck with it. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] Quoth Malaclypse the Younger: "'Tis an ill wind that blows no minds."
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