printing setup

Chip chip at wiegand.org
Sat Aug 21 13:37:15 PDT 2004


I am finally getting around to setting up printing on a box I installed 
fbsd-5.2.1 on. I have two printers shared on a windoze network. No 
matter what I do to get an email message to print it always prints the 
postscript code. I am using apsfilter to set up printing, and the 
apsfilter test page prints fine no matter what driver I choose. This 
happens to both printers - one a Lexmark lazerjet and the other an Epson 
inkjet. I can print web pages just fine. All that was with printed via 
lpd. I have also installed samba and setup up printing via samba with 
the same results (using apsfilter again).
<rant>I have been using freebsd since 3.0 and it appears the printing 
setup has not changed a bit even in 5.2.1. When will this be brought in 
to the 21st century?</rant>

Anyway, what do I have to do to get emails to print?

Thanks and regards and getting frustrated,
Chip W.



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