diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml index f866aab7a5..47fd9570ab 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ The FreeBSD Documentation Project - $FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml,v 1.187 2001/04/28 07:17:19 dd Exp $ + $FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml,v 1.188 2001/05/01 17:56:53 nik Exp $ 1995 @@ -6085,12 +6085,25 @@ C:\="DOS" Handbook entry on printing. Some printers require a host-based driver to do any kind of - printing. These so-called WinPrinters 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. + printing. These so-called WinPrinters 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 + ports/print/pnm2ppa port supports it. + From its + package description: + +
+ 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. [...] + + WWW: http://pnm2ppa.sourceforge.net/ +
diff --git a/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml b/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml index f866aab7a5..47fd9570ab 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml +++ b/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ The FreeBSD Documentation Project - $FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml,v 1.187 2001/04/28 07:17:19 dd Exp $ + $FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml,v 1.188 2001/05/01 17:56:53 nik Exp $ 1995 @@ -6085,12 +6085,25 @@ C:\="DOS" Handbook entry on printing. Some printers require a host-based driver to do any kind of - printing. These so-called WinPrinters 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. + printing. These so-called WinPrinters 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 + ports/print/pnm2ppa port supports it. + From its + package description: + +
+ 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. [...] + + WWW: http://pnm2ppa.sourceforge.net/ +