* Ed Ahlsen-Girard on Mon, May 25, 2009 at 07:43:51AM -0500: > > 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. If it is at home, then I'd seriously suggest that you'd use LPD on Windows. This way, at least the connection from your OpenBSD box to the spooler is not cluttered by a myriad of byzantine protocols (especially of all things SMB and CUPS...), and you can concentrate on finding a way to convert your jobs to a format the printer understands (and the setup stays *much* simpler and thus much easier to debug should problems arise someday). Last time I did it, setting up LPD on Windows was almost a no-brainer, and the correspinging printcap was straightforward and worked out of the box at the first try. As for the "printer driver" (for lack of a better term), you might want to take a look at http://openprinting.org/printer_list.cgi?make=HP for your specific OfficeJet. On a cursory look, it seems as if the OfficeJets are quite well supported by a number of different ways, so it should be relatively easy to e.g. plug a filter programme into printcap. I believe I have a few OfficeJets around at work; if I find the time I will experiment a little bit with them. s//un
