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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Printer? HP 855Cse...
Date: 9 Jul 1996 21:22:55 GMT
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kopti@seas.gwu.edu (Juzer T. Kopti) wrote:

> Just installed FreeBSD 2.1...Are drivers for HP 855Cse DESKJET
> printer available now ?

What do you expect from a printer driver under FreeBSD?

The generic lpt driver should do it (unless your deskjet suffers from
the DeskJet 500/520 "We don't support multi-user operation for these
devices (copyright for this answer by HP)" syndrome -- the lpt driver
has been fixed later to tolerate HP's braindead timing).

Of course, if you are asking whether there are programs that could
generate raw PCL bits to send to this printer (via the driver, of
course), this is a totally different kind of matter.

Anyway, i think ghostscript (for converting PostScript documents) or
dvilj should do this quite well.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)