RE: PCL over PAP (was Re: Unfamiliar with netatalk printing...)


Subject: RE: PCL over PAP (was Re: Unfamiliar with netatalk printing...)
From: Sean Page (spage@epsb.edmonton.ab.ca)
Date: Fri May 05 2000 - 12:03:32 EDT


In FreeBSD, the APSfilter package in the ports collection is supposed to do
this splendidly. I plan to check this out over the next week or so, I'll
post the results of my experience.

> ----------
> From: Tom Watson
> Sent: Thursday, May 4, 2000 2:44 PM
> To: netatalk-admins@umich.edu
> Subject: PCL over PAP (was Re: Unfamiliar with netatalk printing...)
>
> On Thu, 4 May 2000 13:08:52 -0400 (EDT), netatalk-admins@umich.edu wrote:
> > At 1:18 Uhr -0400 04.05.2000, Kevin White wrote:
> >
> <<<deletia>>>
> >
> > I don't know any Mac driver with PAP support which generates PCL (only
> > local). Which doesn't mean that it's not existing, tough.
>
> OK, now that this has been brought up, does anyone know of such a driver
> for a Mac. I've got an HP Color LaserJet, but no postscript module. I
> have the localtalk module though. I assume that it wants PCL via pap.
>
> I guess the alternative is to have the Linux box recieve PAP and then
> GhostScript to PCL, sending it out. Proper configuration files necessary
> to do this would be a nice "cookbook" solution.
>
> >
> >
> --
> Tom Watson Generic short signature
> tsw@johana.com (I'm at home now)
>
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