On Thu, 28 May 2009 22:24:46 +0200 (CEST), Wojciech Puchar <woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote: > > > > in general, I would agree, but some BASIC FUNCTIONALITY should > > be brought by the printer itself, and if it's only ASCII printing, > > so things like > > > > % ls /etc > /dev/ulpt0 > > what's wrong in ls /etc|lpr > ?
The problem is that by default, no printer is talked to. If the printer has PS or PCL, gs or even apsfilter will help. The above command works, for example, with a line printer (dotmatrix printer) with NO driver, even works with a HP Laserjet - it uses the built-in text fonts to print the text. I just wish "modern" printers would at least have a single font for text printing - and finally a driver for FreeBSD (or much better, a standard compliance that makes use of PS, PCL or something similar). > it's even easier to set up that standard than it was to set up PCL > standard. > [...] > incredibly simple to implement both in printer and software. > > but looks like too difficult for manufacturers. When they would tell on the box "Works with every system, no driver needed", the customer would surely think that something is missing, like "batteries not includec" - "What? I have to buy extra batteries? No way!" :-) -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"