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From: y0001415@ws.rz.tu-bs.de (Martin Butkus)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: HP Deskjet printers
Date: 5 Dec 1995 15:38:20 GMT
Organization: TU Braunschweig, Informatik (Bueltenweg), Germany
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William Gianopoulos {84718} (wag@swl.msd.ray.com) wrote:
: I have an HP Deskjet 540 printer that I would like to use under FreeBSD.
: Where can I get a driver or output filter which would allow this to be used
: as a text printer?
: --
: William A. Gianopoulos; Raytheon Electronic Systems
: wag@swl.msd.ray.com
: --------------------------------------------------------
: This is my personal opinion and not that of my employer.
apsfilter does a very good job in this. It is available in the ports
collection and pretty much self-explaining. It needs ghostscript though
as its concept is to convert ASCII (and lots of other file formats such as
DVI, Tiff, ...) to Postscript and to use ghostscript for printing.
OTOH, if you *only* want to print text, you should consider the FreeBSD
Handbook, somewhere in http://www.freebsd.org. AFAIK, setting up a
printer is described there in detail for Deskjets and other printers.
Hope this helps.
--
Martin Butkus >>> Live long and prosper. <<<
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