Printing to Network LaserJet 8100

I was pleasantly surprised to see how easy it was to setup my FreeBSD
machine to act as a print server. It took trail and error but I was able to
get a text file to print to one of the HP LaserJet 8100's in our network
using one of the small filter scripts shown in the Printing section of the
FreeBSD handbook.

Of course now I need to move on to printing PS and PDF files, etc... so I
can get HylaFAX to dump arriving faxes to a printer. Reading the handbook is
still leaving me in the dark on exactly which filter I need and how to edit
the /etc/printcap file accordingly.

And advice would be appreciated.


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Max Fine wrote:
> I was pleasantly surprised to see how easy it was to setup my FreeBSD
> machine to act as a print server. It took trail and error but I was able to
> get a text file to print to one of the HP LaserJet 8100's in our network
> using one of the small filter scripts shown in the Printing section of the
> FreeBSD handbook.

Is that the small filter script that allows plain text to be printed on
a postscript printer?


> Of course now I need to move on to printing PS and PDF files, etc... so I
> can get HylaFAX to dump arriving faxes to a printer. Reading the handbook is
> still leaving me in the dark on exactly which filter I need and how to edit
> the /etc/printcap file accordingly.

With a bit of luck that laserjet speaks PS natively, so you can just dump
those in (WITHOUT prepending the plaintext-to-ps stub from your filter, if
you please). xpdf and acroread (and mozilla and a host of other programs)
generate PS when asked to print, so that should take care of pdf.

If not, you'll need to jump through hoops and Stuff, with a postscript
interpreter (eg ghostscript) and apropriate filters. But since you
didn't already have to do that, there's probably no reason to start now.


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