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/
+