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by **JinG** » Thu, 19 Dec 1996 04:00:00

Hi, all:

How to print from freeBSD to another printer on remote Host(such as sun
workstation)?

Thanks
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JinG
Systems Engineer
ST Computer, Singapore

by **dennis** » Thu, 19 Dec 1996 04:00:00

> Hi, all:

> How to print from freeBSD to another printer on remote Host(such as sun
> workstation)?

at My old woork place I used to use "lpr" with an entry in my
"etc/printcap" stolen from the sun, and of course you have to change it
to "rm" printer for remote. Do a man printcap and you will see.

the sun should magicaly conver to postscript for you via it's print
filter. At a later time we no longer had the sun as the print spooler,
we just had a poscript printer on a network with it's own ip, at that
time I had to install a print filter in a shell script ( if it was not
postscript the poscriptify else print) there is a package/port/print
apsfilter... It's not very hard. Good luck.

dennisg

by **Arne Norre Ekstro** » Fri, 20 Dec 1996 04:00:00

> How to print from freeBSD to another printer on remote Host(such as sun
> workstation)?

I use the following /etc/printcap:

# My printcap....
# Do remote printing on royal as default. Use /var/spool/lpd/royal for spooling.
lp|HP LaserJet 5L:\
:lp=:rm=royal:rp=lp:sd=/var/spool/lpd/royal:
# End of printcap

You may want to Read the Linux Printing HOWTO, it tells the whole story...

\Arne

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