On Mon, 25 May 2009 01:53 -0500 J. C. Roberts wrote: > On Sun, 24 May 2009 23:39:17 -0400 <eagir...@cox.net> wrote: > > > > If anyone is printing successfully to an OfficeJet served on an XP > > > box from OBSD 4.4 or later, I'd sure appreciate knowing how you do it. > > The best answer is simply buy a good quality, postscript, network > enabled printer.
That might be an option once I have a job again, but even then space considerations will weigh heavily. This is at home. > > The second best answer is CUPS. > > You're attempting the worst possible answer, namely printing through > MS-windows. I haven't ever tried it myself, but I'd bet if it is > possible, then you'll be doing it through samba (in ports) and possibly > CUPS (in ports). > > NOTE: There were a handful of commits to ports-changes@ in the last > week or two regarding samba and cups, so you might want to try > installing -current through a snapshot, and building the needed > printing related ports yourself. > > -- J.C. Roberts I will check those out. Previous attempts with samba and cups would allow things like printing straight text only. -- Ed Ahlsen-Girard [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type APPLICATION/DEFANGED which had a name of eagirard.27899DEFANGED-vcf]
