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From: klimt@informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Wolfgang Klimt)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: HP DeskJet 520
Date: 2 Sep 1994 18:30:08 GMT
Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
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In article <PHILS.94Aug31224132@satori.tv.tek.com>, phils@tv.tek.com (Phil Staub) writes:
>
> I'm contemplating the purchase of an HP DeskJet 520 printer to use
> with FreeBSD. While I'm not too woried about getting it to print text,
> how difficult is it to print graphics? I assume one would use a filter
> which translates some bitmap format into a graphics language that the
> printer handles. (This is making the assumption that this printer does
> not grok postscript, since that translation would be relatively
> straightforward to do. Is this a correct assumption?)
You should install ghostscript and build a printcap-entry where your
printer is installed as PS-printer and ghostscript filters every
coming input. I did something like that on my 486/DX2 with a DeskJet
550c connected to it and it works fine.
Wolfii
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