[Tfug] postscript & ghostscript printing issue

[Robert Hunter]

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On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 08:55:21AM -0700, christ wrote:
> Hi, can someone advise me on how to troubleshoot a
> printing issue.
> 
> The gist of it is that in an effort to work around
> a system crash when I try to use cups, I decided to
> try to set up printing the old-fashioned way on my
> FreeBSD system. In the freebsd handbook, this
> involves getting your printer to first print raw
> text files, and then creating filters to print 
> everything else.

Chris, I've had great success with HP's "hplip" software.  I have
scanning, printing, and faxing capibility from my Ubuntu laptop, and
the only thing I had to do to get it working was type "hp-setup -a <ip
address>".  It looks like it's available on freebsd, too.


http://freebsd.kde.org/howtos/hplip.php

HTH,

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Rob
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