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Ammend the "WinPrinters" comment in rev. 1.186 with a link to the

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ports/print/pnm2ppa port.  It's not much, but it's a ray of hope for
those stuck with "WinPrinters".

Submitted by:   Adam <bsdx@looksharp.net>
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Dima Dorfman 2001-05-04 05:11:18 +00:00
parent 3d4a4bbdf1
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<corpauthor>The FreeBSD Documentation Project</corpauthor>
<pubdate>$FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml,v 1.187 2001/04/28 07:17:19 dd Exp $</pubdate>
<pubdate>$FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml,v 1.188 2001/05/01 17:56:53 nik Exp $</pubdate>
<copyright>
<year>1995</year>
@ -6085,12 +6085,25 @@ C:\="DOS"</programlisting>
Handbook entry on printing.</ulink></para>
<para>Some printers require a host-based driver to do any kind of
printing. These so-called <quote>WinPrinters</quote> do not
currently work on FreeBSD, and they may never work. If your
printer does not work in DOS or Windows NT 4.0, it is a
WinPrinter and won't work in FreeBSD. The only exception would
be if the manufacturer has released the driver information, and
a driver has been added to the ghostscript port.</para>
printing. These so-called <quote>WinPrinters</quote> are not
natively supported by FreeBSD. If your printer does not work
in DOS or Windows NT 4.0, it is probably a WinPrinter. Your
only hope of getting one of these to work is to check if the
<filename>ports/print/pnm2ppa</filename> port supports it.
From <ulink
url="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/print/pnm2ppa/pkg-descr">its
package description</ulink>:</para>
<blockquote>
<para>This software creates output using the PPA (printer
performance architecture) protocol. This protocol is used by
some HP "Windows-only" printers, including the HP Deskjet
820C series, the HP DeskJet 720 series, and the HP DeskJet
1000 series. [...]</para>
<para>WWW: <ulink
url="http://pnm2ppa.sourceforge.net/">http://pnm2ppa.sourceforge.net/</ulink></para>
</blockquote>
</answer>
</qandaentry>

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en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml
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@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
<corpauthor>The FreeBSD Documentation Project</corpauthor>
<pubdate>$FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml,v 1.187 2001/04/28 07:17:19 dd Exp $</pubdate>
<pubdate>$FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml,v 1.188 2001/05/01 17:56:53 nik Exp $</pubdate>
<copyright>
<year>1995</year>
@ -6085,12 +6085,25 @@ C:\="DOS"</programlisting>
Handbook entry on printing.</ulink></para>
<para>Some printers require a host-based driver to do any kind of
printing. These so-called <quote>WinPrinters</quote> do not
currently work on FreeBSD, and they may never work. If your
printer does not work in DOS or Windows NT 4.0, it is a
WinPrinter and won't work in FreeBSD. The only exception would
be if the manufacturer has released the driver information, and
a driver has been added to the ghostscript port.</para>
printing. These so-called <quote>WinPrinters</quote> are not
natively supported by FreeBSD. If your printer does not work
in DOS or Windows NT 4.0, it is probably a WinPrinter. Your
only hope of getting one of these to work is to check if the
<filename>ports/print/pnm2ppa</filename> port supports it.
From <ulink
url="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/print/pnm2ppa/pkg-descr">its
package description</ulink>:</para>
<blockquote>
<para>This software creates output using the PPA (printer
performance architecture) protocol. This protocol is used by
some HP "Windows-only" printers, including the HP Deskjet
820C series, the HP DeskJet 720 series, and the HP DeskJet
1000 series. [...]</para>
<para>WWW: <ulink
url="http://pnm2ppa.sourceforge.net/">http://pnm2ppa.sourceforge.net/</ulink></para>
</blockquote>
</answer>
</qandaentry>