From 5967b5c90e01bd9711a126e69ccfb4c231fdaa18 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dima Dorfman
WinPrintersdo 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.
WinPrintersare 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 +
+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 @@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/
WinPrintersdo 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.
WinPrintersare 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 +
+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/