Still having network/Postscript Printer problem

Warren Block wblock at wonkity.com
Sun Sep 13 19:01:41 UTC 2015


On Sun, 13 Sep 2015, Polytropon wrote:

> On Sun, 13 Sep 2015 07:37:27 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wrote:
>> On Sun, 13 Sep 2015, reg at dwf.com wrote:
>>
>>> I am having nothing but trouble in trying to get printing to work under
>>> FreeBSD with my HPLJ4100.  The printer works find from linux, and I might
>>> just give up and use the 'cups' implemenetation under FreeBSD if I can't
>>> get lpd to work.
>>>
>>> Here is where I stand.
>>>
>>> I have the environment variabalee
>>>
>>> setenv PRINTER=HPLJ4100
>>
>> This is not used by lpd at all, as far as I know.
>
> It's being used by lpr, lpq, lprm - which I consider part
> of lpd. :-)

Huh.  I guess I just never used it.


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