Subject: Re: Hewlett-Packard Printers and Unix Boxes

From: <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 20:19:48 -0500 (EST)

> Has anyone had any success using an HP printyer that was directly 
> attached to a Unix box?  If so where were any requisite drivers found?

I have a HP DeskJet 600C directly attached to a Pentium PC running
Linux (Kernel 1.2; Slackware distribution). I installed apsfilter
by running /usr/lib/apsfilter/SETUP. Some points:

a) printer driver: cdj550 is faster than cdeskjet
b) device name: /dev/lp1	(/dev/lp0 does not work)
c) check /etc/printcap file for logic printer names

APSFILTER is a lineprinter input filter. It also enables non Postscript 
printers to print postscript files automatically. APSFILTER is available
from ftp.Germany.EU.Net, at /pub/os/Linux/Incoming.EUnet/ 

Hope this will help.

-Lingran

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