Re: Use network printer from NetBSD

[Rocky Hotas <rockyhotas%firemail.cc@localhost>]

On giu 26 15:35, Johnny Billquist wrote:

> By the way, the next step here is to check in the menu system of the printer
> if you can set the printer emulation. If you can, then set it to PCL then,
> and then do the printf | netcat thing. Hopefully that should then work...
> 
> If you don't have a setting for printer emulation, I would say that then you
> are stuck with the proprietary format, and your best bet is CUPS.

I'm afraid this is the case.

> If you can do PCL, then you just need something that can translate whatever
> documents you have to PCL, and you can just throw that at port 9100.

OK! This can be anyway useful, for any other situation.

Rocky