On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Richard Rauch wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 08:20:25AM -0500, Frederick Bruckman wrote:
>
>  * Do you have any idea why (other than historical behavior) filters are
>    disabled on remote printers by default?

I guess that's why. The department supplying the staff and paper are
the ones that would do the accounting, not the department providing
the terminal. The notion of using "lpd" to massage print jobs for
hardware postscript printers is a new use, relatively speaking.

> Yucky hack, but the only thing that works.  (And even so, it still spits
> out a blank page at the end of the job.)

Is this an HP laserjet? I seem to recall adding something to the
NetBSD web pages (FAQ) describing a work-around for this, involving
telnetting to the printer. I know this isn't the first time the issue
has come up -- you might also try doing a search on existing PR's, or
on the mailing lists, for topical background or maybe even patches.

Frederick