On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 12:14 PM, Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Gligor Lucian wrote:
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> > David Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 12:59:38PM
> -0700, Gligor Lucian >wrote:
> >>> Does FreeBSD support a USB printer?
> >
> >> Yes.
> >
>
> You know, while there are printing utils that actually work on FreeBSD, I
> can't personally recommend CUPS. I keep on trying to get it to work on
> FreeBSD efvery year or so, then I need to go over to one of my other
> systems. Last one I tried was an Epson Stylus C84, but I've also tried HP
> officejets, and I just can't get locally attached printers to work with
> cups. I can get them to work with things like apsfilter very well, but
> either someone is going to have to fix the Cups port (it builds, but
> nothing locally runs) or stop recommending it.
>
> Or, does anyone else have it working on FreeBSD? Sure would like to hear
> about it, but I've been trying for a long time now, with no success.
>
> > Thank you very much for your answer.
> > All the best, Gligor Lucian.
> >
I have CUPS working on my laptop and desktop. I don't have a local
printer installed. I am using CUPS to access printers shared from a
windows machine. Works fine, except this morning I noticed a pdf not
printing correctly but I believe that is Evince's fault.
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personal relationships.
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